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• LETTER: Smoking Out Danger Via Tort Cases  

In response to John Stossel's opinion piece ("Small Victories for Tort Reform," April 4): Mr. Stossel argues that I am a "legal bully" for trying to protect my four-year-old from my neighbor's secondhand smoke that billows through our shared hallway, and for having participated in recovering more than $2 billion for American consumers who have been defrauded out of their hard-earned money by large corporations. . . .

The typical settlement in my cases results in consumers being reimbursed out-of-pocket expenses (often hundreds or thousands of dollars each), as well as an extended warranty to protect them in the future, which means Mr. Stossel is right about another thing: I am proud of what I do.

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