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Ted Frank has the latest on Lott's appeal of the dismissal of his case: Lott is now claiming that the case should have been decided under the allegedly more friendly Virginia libel law than the Illinois law under which his...
Posted on April 25, 2008 2:21 PM • 3 Comments
Back in August I wrote how Lott tried to amend his complaint against Levitt. Unfortunately for Lott, the judge rejected his proposed amendments as "futile and unduly delayed". So now Lott is appealing the decision. William Ford has the update....
Posted on November 12, 2007 11:32 AM • 0 Comments
When we last visited Lott's lawsuit against Levitt, Lott was asking the judge to reconsider the dismissal of his case against Freakonomics. Well, the judge denied this, so now Lott wants to amend his complaint. The new complaint adds is...
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Posted on August 1, 2007 2:10 PM • 31 Comments
David Glenn, in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Lott-Levitt lawsuit has been provisionally settled: The letter of clarification, which was included in today's filing, offers a doozy of a concession. In his 2005 message, Mr. Levitt told...
Posted on July 28, 2007 2:58 AM • 3 Comments
In the Chronicle of Higher Education David Glenn reports: A federal judge has rejected John R. Lott Jr.'s request that a gag order be placed on any and all information that emerges in the pretrial discovery process in Mr. Lott's...
Posted on June 15, 2007 11:47 AM • 0 Comments
David Glenn in the Chronicle of Higher Education: In a motion filed last week in federal court, Mr. Lott's lawyers asked the judge to place a gag order on any information that might turn up in depositions or private documents...
Posted on June 6, 2007 9:58 PM • 10 Comments
David Glenn reports: The economist Steven D. Levitt's colleagues at the University of Chicago might be tempted to cancel their classes and wander down to Chicago's federal courthouse on October 1. That's the date that has been set for the...
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Posted on May 3, 2007 9:10 AM • 15 Comments
Q: What do you do when your lawsuit against Freakonomics gets thrown out?...
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Posted on March 28, 2007 8:02 PM • 31 Comments
The judge for Lott's lawsuit against Levitt has thrown out Lott's claim that he was defamed by Freakonomics. (Decision is here.) Some quotes from the decision: The Court will grant a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) only if "no...
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Posted on January 12, 2007 3:56 AM • 14 Comments
Michael Shermer's September column in Scientific American is on Lott's lawsuit. He got some comments from both Lott and Levitt:...
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Posted on August 21, 2006 1:42 PM • 10 Comments
Via Eli Rabett I find a long article by James L. Meriner in Chicago magazine on the Lott-Levitt lawsuit. There's some new information on the history of Lott and Levitt such as this: Just when and how the Lott-Levitt feud...
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Posted on August 12, 2006 12:39 PM • 13 Comments
William Ford has Levitt's reply to Lott. I think this part sums it up:...
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Posted on July 25, 2006 1:54 PM • 6 Comments
Lott has filed a response to Levitt's motion to dismiss....
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Posted on July 11, 2006 2:16 PM • 4 Comments
William Ford has the latest news on Lott's lawsuit against Levitt: Levitt and HarperCollins have filed motions to dismiss the case. Some new snippets of information(from the Joint Initial Status Report): Lott wrote Levitt on January 11, 2006 requesting that...
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Posted on June 4, 2006 12:24 AM • 13 Comments
The LA Times publishes Jon Wiener on Lott's lawsuit: But Lott is not suing those who have said some of his pro-gun research was "invented," "faked" or "cooked." The lawsuit turns on the definition of "replicate," from the "Freakonomics" sentence...
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Posted on May 31, 2006 3:10 PM • 1 Comments
David Glenn's article get discussed by Henry Farrell (lots of comments there), Ted Frank and King. Lott finally mentions the lawsuit on his blog. No comments there, so far....
Posted on April 20, 2006 11:35 PM • 2 Comments
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
