Kansas City, Mo ? A federal judge on Wednesday ordered CBS affiliate KCTV not to broadcast the name or picture of a man in a story that featured several men depicted as sex predators.

U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright granted a request from one of the men, identified in a lawsuit only as John Doe, who said the story and a promotion aired since Sunday and posted on the station’s Web site had defamed him.

The station briefly pulled the promo — which clearly features several men’s faces — from its Web site Wednesday afternoon, but was running it again that night. The promo also continued to run on television Wednesday night.

The man also asked for at least $75,000 in damages. His lawyer, Kevin Baldwin, said he had not been charged with any crime.

The man was among several men shown in a promo that ran during the Super Bowl broadcast and in the days after.

Wright’s one-sentence temporary order said the station could air the story, so long as it does not show Doe’s face or use his name.

KCTV attorney Bernard J. Rhodes told The Associated Press he had filed a brief late Wednesday afternoon in response to the lawsuit, and said Wright ordered the brief sealed because it identified the plaintiff.

Rhodes earlier said the judge’s order not to identify the man in the news report amounted to prior restraint of the media.

“We continue to believe that once the judge is apprised of the law he will agree with us that his order violates the First Amendment and that tomorrow he will change his mind and lift his prior restraint,” Rhodes said.

The promo shows the man and others approaching a house, then being confronted by the station’s cameras and investigative reporter Steve Chamraz. The men are then shown getting in their cars in an apparent attempt to flee.

Baldwin said his client was only trying to help a girl he believed was in distress.

The commercial, less than two minutes long, includes this narration: “They came expecting sex — with a 14-year-old. They left, trying to hide from our cameras. Now complete and uncut, they’re exposed. This guy works in local schools.”

The camera cuts to a shot of a man’s shadowed face and torso as the reporter asks, “You didn’t come here to have sex with a 14-year-old-girl?” The man is then shown walking to his car, as the voiceover says, “But our investigation exposes his secret.”