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... Kindling the Flames Finally, the new tort law does not offer one useful social function that was certainly provided under the old tort law: resolving fresh, focused, bipolar disputes. Some method must exist for resolving civil controversies, and as a sociological matter it is probably best that ordinary two-person quarrels be resolved by neutral nonexperts and lay juries.
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