Legal expert Rachael Bennett is breaking down exactly why Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's text messages were released as their It Ends With Us legal battle continues "We see that, commonly, the court will seal records that don't necessarily have much relevancy to the case," Bennett, senior lawyer at Sullivan Law & Associates, told Us Weekly exclusively. "Maybe, that relevancy is being argued in preliminary trial hearings." Bennett explained that separate rulings were previously made "about sealing the record of the case and sealing some documents because they carried public weight.