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Lindsay Lohan To Be Caught on Tape

No matter how hard she tries, Lindsay Lohan can't avoid the cameras.

A judge ruled Wednesday that the actress' upcoming deposition in a car crash-related negligence lawsuit could be videotaped, despite the objections of Lohan's legal team.

Lohan's attorney David J. Ozeran filed a motion earlier this month seeking to bar cameras from the Dec. 3 deposition, arguing that the footage would inevitably fall into the wrong hands.

"If a single picture of Ms. Lohan can sell for thousands of dollars, a videotape of the deposition will undoubtedly sell for tens of thousands of dollars, or more," Ozeran wrote in the motion, filed Nov. 5 in Los Angeles Superior Court.

He claimed that the real purpose of videotaping the proceeding was to "annoy Ms. Lohan and to attempt to gain a litigation advantage by causing her concern about the embarrassment of such a videotape."

However, Superior Court Judge Michael L. Stern sided with lawyers for Raymundo Ortega, a busboy who sued Lohan in June, claiming she was drunk and distracted by paparazzi when she slammed her Mercedes Benz into his minivan on Oct. 5, 2005.

Ortega is seeking $200,000 in damages stemming from the incident.

Last month, the 21-year-old actress fired back in a $75,000 countersuit, pointing out that the California Highway Patrol found no indication that alcohol was a factor in the crash and in fact determined that Ortega was at fault for making an illegal U-turn in front of the actress' car.

She was not present in court Wednesday.

Earlier this month, the thesp logged all of 84 minutes in a Los Angeles lockup, stemming from a plea deal in her double DUI arrests earlier this year.

Lohan has also been spotted performing her court-ordered community service at an American Red Cross facility in the L.A. area.

Apart from paying her debt to society, the actress has been busy filming her upcoming tango-based movie, Dare to Love Me.

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