In Re Atlantic Pipe Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that district court had inherent authority to mandate mediation even where mediation was not permitted under Rule 16 because no statute or local rule authorized it
• noting that a showing of a risk of irreparable harm and palpable error \typically apply only to supervisory mandamus\
• noting that Alternative Dispute Resolution Act of 1998 requires party consent for a district court to order arbitration but not to order nonbinding mediation
• explaining that some district courts have prohibited some forms of ADR
• concluding mandamus was “prudent under the circumstances”
• “[I]t is trite but often true that justice delayed is justice denied.”

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