You are "reading" too much in the Court Order for EDIG to partake in a Dispute Resolution process...

The Court can and often does make sure that process is followed. It is part of the Rules of Court...

In fact, so much so that when a complaint is filed the plaintiff attorneys are given a packet they have to serve on defendants that sets forth the path the law suit shall follow, and the case is sechudled for a Status Conference, usually within 4-6 months from date of "Filing", for the Court to see how things are moving along...

At the Status Conferences that follow, parties have to file "Case Management Statements" with the Court, on forms provided by Court, that have Dispute Resolution Options for the parties to select by a check mark..

Usually, you are given a choice of BINDING ARBITRATION, NON-BINIDING ARBITRATION, MEDIATION, OR COURT SUPERVISED "Settlement Conferences"...

EDIG and DigEcor have already gone through the process. They just had a "Settlement Conference". If in the Case Management Statement filed by the parties for the "Settlement Conference" Digecor had asked for a for one of the option for Dispute Resolution listed above, the Judge who conducted the Conference can issue his ORDER addressed to EDIG that they participate in it before the case goes to trial...

And that is what this ORDER is...Has no implicaation of "Favortism", or anything else...

Gil...