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The contest, sponsored this year by the Foundation for Fair Civil Justice, has a serious edge, said organizer Bob Dorigo Jones, of Novi, Mich. "We want to expose how the American civil justice system is out of whack, and this contest allows us to use humor as a hook to start an important debate over how much consumers and families spend because of frivolous lawsuits, how much more they spend on everything from medicine to automobiles," he said. But a critic says the contest itself is frivolous. "The fact is that warning labels do save many lives, and our country would be suffering quite a bit more without them," said Joanne Doroshow, executive director of the New York-based Center for Justice & Democracy.
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