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 Get Tort Reform Right
 
   PRESIDENT BUSH staged a series of events last week to highlight his hopes for legal reform. He is right that the staggering costs and irrationality of America's civil justice system are unacceptable. The tort system is something of a casino, offering windfall judgments to a small number of claimants and nothing to others -- with the merits of cases seeming almost irrelevant to their valuation. But it won't be easy to do reform properly. On one side, trial lawyers and their allies in the Democratic Party stand in the way; on the other, tort reform advocates often seem more interested in benefiting business than in making civil justice fairer and more predictable. The new Congress has three golden opportunities to improve the American litigation system. Seizing them will take a willingness to transcend old battle lines in the tort reform wars.
 
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