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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In a statement to parliament Mr Khurshid said that Italian requests "for diplomatic or expert level meetings" to consider the issue of jurisdiction in the case - "or whether it can be referred to arbitration or any other judicial mechanism cannot be accepted".

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Sapir's marathon legal proceedings--the 26th judicial hearing in the MOR dispute, an arbitration in London, begins in secrecy in May--opens a window on an enduring feature of Russian life: the bitter battles between clans of politicians and business leaders.

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But the Supreme Court was careful to say that arbitration should look and feel just like a judicial case.

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Some months later, the new Finance Minister, Ms Lagarde, overruled objections from her officials and intervened in the judicial case, pushing the bank and Mr Tapie into binding arbitration.

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