The U.S. Solicitor General agrees, saying in a brief submitted in the case, scheduled to be argued Feb. 27, that private lawsuits are a key part of the antitrust enforcement scheme and consumers would lose out if those cases could be squelched with arbitration agreements.

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Greene never filled out a police report about Tice, nor did he contact any law enforcement office, but one year after Tice filed his libel lawsuit Greene filed an arbitration demand with Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services against Tice and LB Property Management, which the sitting arbitrator dismissed in 2008.

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