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Category: Levitt
After Lott's lawsuit against Freakonomics was thrown out of court, he tried for a doever by amending his complaint. The judge said no, so Lott appealed. And now he's lost the appeal as well. More discussion at Volokh....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:38 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Levitt
William Ford reports on the oral arguments in Lott's appeal of the dismissal of his lawsuit against Levitt: Evans and Sykes asked all the questions. Ripple remained silent. I have only glanced at the briefs, but based on the questions...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:51 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Levitt
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 by Tim Lambert at 2:21 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Levitt
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 by Tim Lambert at 11:32 AM • •
Category: Levitt
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:10 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Levitt
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 by Tim Lambert at 2:58 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Levitt
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 by Tim Lambert at 11:47 AM • •
Category: Levitt
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 by Tim Lambert at 9:58 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Levitt
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...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 9:10 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Levitt
Q: What do you do when your lawsuit against Freakonomics gets thrown out?...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:02 PM • 31 Comments •
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