More Britney, and Spears' friend and sometime manager Sam Lutfi has asked for a judge to consider the restraining order currently in place against him should Spears' family want it extended when it is next up for renewal in mid-April.
The restraining order against Lutfi, which prevents him from contacting or going near Spears, was put in place after allegations were made by Brit's family, in particular her mother, against the self-proclaimed manager, including claims he had drugged the popstress to get her to comply with his wishes. The order has stayed in place since its original issue at the instruction of Superior Court Commissioner Reve Goetz.
However, Goetz is not actually a judge and Lutfi has now issued a request to court that says that the next time the order is reviewed he wants to be able to put his case for having access to Britney to a judge. The one-sentence filing reportedly reads: "Please take notice that Osama "Sam" Lutfi will not stipulate to the above-referenced case being heard by Reva Goetz, commissioner presiding, to whom the above-entitled case has been assigned".
A spokesman for Lutfi told E! News: "There's nothing out of the ordinary that Sam is doing. No person has to agree to a commissioner hearing the case. A commissioner is not a judge. If need be, and if this is going to go on, unfortunately, then [Lutfi wants it] heard in front of a judge".
Elsewhere in Britney news another court commissioner, this time Scott Gordon, has told Britney's people that they need to pay the bulk of Kevin Federline's legal fees in the ongoing custody dispute between the former couple. Spears' lawyers had claimed that the Fed's attorney, Mark Kaplan, had overcharged for his services and that Federline now had is own sources of income and should pay his legal fees himself. However, Gordon ruled that Britney had to pay her ex's legal costs, adding that the main reason they had escalated so much was because of Spears' repeated slackness in relation to the case.
That said, the court only ordered Britney to pay Federline £375,000 towards is legal bills, even though Kaplan has reportedly invoiced for closer to half a million.