Article: George Washington University Professor Wages Legal War on 'Obesity Crisis'.

By Rinker Buck, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 13--WASHINGTON--The opponents of big class-action lawsuits that cost American corporations billions of dollars a year -- among them several prominent policy-makers in the Bush administration -- know that they don't have to look very far to find the Osama bin Laden of torts.

He is George Washington University Law School Professor John F. Banzhaf, whose cluttered office, piled high with the detritus of more than 30 years of fighting broadcasters, the tobacco industry and pharmaceutical companies, sits five blocks from the White House. A plaster "Sue the Bastards" ...

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