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Public Citizen and Arbitration

by Ted Frank on April 10, 2008

Professor Peter Rutledge takes on the infamous Public Citizen Report: “There is only one little problem with the Public Citizen Report – it is wrong, both on the facts and in its ultimate conclusions.” More from ILR. Earlier on Overlawyered.

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