All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part VI

[robkelk]

... on the election and reasonable notice of either party any litigation shall be referred to arbitration.

Referred by whom?  Is this one of those quirks of law of the 51st state?

No, that's also something in US jurisprudence. It's "referred to arbitration" by the justice system instead of waiting for a (more-expensive and slower) court proceeding.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012