Apr 29, 2009 • 1 min read

More Britney restraining orders issued

A Los Angeles judge has issued restraining orders against Britney Spears' former manager Osama Lutfi and attorney Jon Eardley, barring contact for three years.

I'm sure we report on Britney's various restraining orders every other day - there's only three in operation, the legalities behind them must be very complicated. Anyway, an LA judge issued new restraining orders against Ms Spears' former sort-of-manager and attorney yesterday ordering them to stay away from the singer for no less than three years.

Legal reps for both Osama Lutfi and Jon Eardley argued that neither man posed any actual threat to Britney, and that their previous actions were not sufficient for the instigation of a restraining order. However, the judge, having heard a testimony by Spears' father and conservator Jamie, issued the restraining orders anyway. Lutfi, who the Spears family accuse of drugging Britney in order to control her life (this was during her particularly loopy stage), has vowed to appeal.

As previously reported, Eardley questioned why Spears, currently on tour, wasn't deemed fit enough to give testimony in court if she's fit enough to wobble around on stage. The judge, however, said it wasn't necessary for her to testify.

As also previously reported, a third restraining order against another man involved in that loopy stage of Spears life, ex-boyfriend and paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, has already been issued, though he did run over the man who tried to hand it to him, so I'm not sure he's necessarily read it.

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