The lawyers worked without pay, and as part of the settlement have now agreed to submit to arbitration rather than insist on a share of the money the states will receive, which is what the contracts they signed with many state governments would have given them.

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Right now, if you have a broker dispute, you have to submit to mandatory arbitration run by the securities industry.

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While the Department of Defense has maintained that American military activities will be exempt from dispute resolution, and that in any event the U.S. will only submit to LOST arbitration panels where the DoD insists we will win handily, there is plenty of room for abuse.

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"If there is a real dispute...they will have to submit it to the Court of Arbitration, " said Andreas Herren.

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Of particular concern is the obligation under LOST to submit any and all disputes to binding arbitration or judicial action by entities that are inherently rigged against us.

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It urged Israel to submit its counter-claim to the UN - where it can bully Israel into accepting arbitration of the dispute by the inherently anti-Israel UN.

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