Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny reached the decision after hearing testimony from the ex-manager, 44-year-old Sam Lutfi, and from Spears' father, James Spears.
A judge on Thursday issued a five-year restraining order forbidding Britney Spears' former manager from contacting the singer or her family or making disparaging statements about them online.
"I worried that he was trying to take down the conservatorship," Spears said from the stand. "I was very angry. I was worried that we were right back in 2008." He also emphasized that Lutfi has made no direct contact with Britney Spears herself, and suggested that her father and his lawyers were not speaking for her and had provided no evidence that she had in any way been harmed by Lutfi's statements.
The judge also shut down most of Gans' questions toward James Spears. The questions asked him to discuss his daughter's mental state and tried to establish that disparaging online statements Lutfi had made about James Spears' use of alcohol and his enriching himself through the conservatorship were true and constitutionally protected.
"I had a great relationship with Lynne Spears," Lutfi said of his time with Britney Spears. Lutfi and Gans said that neither Lynne Spears nor Watson had told him to stop communicating with them or told him he was harassing them.
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