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University of South Carolina Professor: 'Tort Tax' Costing US Households $3,600 Annually

Robert Hartwig of the University of South Carolina characterized the U.S. plaintiffs' bar as "the best-funded, best-organized, best-politically connected special interest group in the world." . . .

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