Ranger, 23, who has also won international honours with the Junior All Blacks and New Zealand Sevens team, is accused of assaulting a man and leaving him unconscious outside the Mangawhai Tavern last August.
He had been granted interim name suppression, until Judge Keith de Ridder lifted the suppression order in Whangarei District Court on March 12.
However, Ranger's lawyer immediately appealed the judge's decision to the High Court, which rejected the appeal last Thursday but ordered that the suppression order be lifted at noon today.
Ranger is expected to go on trial later this year or early next year.
He told reporters after Blues training today that he was "involved in something and that it has got to this stage. It's not good for me or my family and it's not good on the team," the stuff website reported.
"It's now in the court's hands. I have just got to get on with my job and do what is best for this team."
