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From: sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Litigation
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 15:07:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 15:07:00 1986
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>/* mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) /  1:21 am  Jan  2, 1986 */

>With the exception of criminal cases, we already have that.  Any pair of
>litigants can select an arbiter (or any other system they want) and work
>out their differences under any system of rules they want.
>
>This doesn't happen much because usually one party is incapable of
>compelling the other's notice.  Not because of "lawyers privileged status."
>Arbitrartion between unions and employers is one example of where both sides
>can compel attention; polluters and sufferers don't fit that criterion.

>Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh


What does "compelling the other's notice" mean?  Is this legal jargon?