The Club for Growth is a conservative group whose goals include making President Bush's tax cuts permanent, repealing the estate tax, cutting government spending and promoting free trade and tort reform not to mention deregulation in general.

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For its principles, the fund drew on tort law, private and government insurance, and welfare, says George Priest, a professor at Yale Law School, but with no consistency and no cap on the amount paid other than Mr Feinberg's sense that Congress did not want a runaway programme.

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The case requires the high court to determine whether the motor vehicle safety standards established by the federal government effectively preempt a products liability claim under state tort law.

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