Cities were considered a blight on the environment: energy-hogging, pollution-spewing, garbage-producing environmental hellholes.

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Two factors determine whether a state makes this elite list of fiscal hellholes.

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So Forbes.com asked the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), which surveys hundreds of defense attorneys and corporate executives every year for its report on litigation abuse on "Judicial Hellholes, " to list the places identified by the largest number of survey respondents as the worst possible places to be a defendant in particular types of lawsuits.

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