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  Defamation Suit Won

  Chicago Sun Times February 18, 2009 FRANK MAIN Crime Reporter

  Freakonomics author Steven Levitt will not have to pay a dime to fellow economist John Lott after a federal appeals court ruled last week that the best-selling book did not defame Lott.

  Lott, a former University of Chicago visiting professor, sued Levitt in 2006.

  Lott is the author of More Guns, Less Crime, which argues that allowing people to carry concealed weapons reduces crime. Lott claimed Freakonomics defamed him with this passage: "When other scholars have tried to replicate [Lott's] results, they found that right-to-carry laws simply don't bring down crime."

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    the court did the right thing. i am not sure how that passage amounted to defamation, especially if there is evidence that Lott's findings might have been wrong

    Skeptic Khattak 10 months ago

     

    
    

     

     

     

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