When John R. Lott Jr. filed a defamation lawsuit against his fellow economist Steven D. Levitt last year, he charged that in the best-selling book Freakonomics and elsewhere, Mr. Levitt had damaged Mr. Lott’s reputation “in the minds of hundreds of thousands of academics, college students, graduate students, and members of the general public.”
Now Mr. Lott appears to be worried that his lawsuit itself, which is scheduled to go to trial on October 1, might have the same effect.
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 as the lawyers on both sides prepare for the trial.
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