LA Superior Court Judge Alan Goodman just issued a ruling in the Charlie Sheen vs. Warner Bros TV and Two and a Half Men co-creator Chuck Lorre case, which will have to be settled in arbitration and won't go to trial. That marks a victory for the studio, which had argued that Sheen's $100 million complaint over his firing from the hit CBS/WBTV comedy had to be handled through arbitration per the actor's contract and that Lorre's own arbitration clause requires his part of the litigation to also go though a mediator, while Sheen's attorney Marty Singer had demanded a public trial. "We're very gratified by the court's ruling enforcing the parties' arbitration agreement," WBTV said in a statement after the ruling. Added Lorre's attorney Howard L. Weitzman: "The court made the appropriate ruling in denying Mr. Sheen's request to stay the arbitration in referring his lawsuit against Warner Bros and Chuck Lorre to arbitration as his contract calls for. This matter will now proceed in an orderly fashion as the parties agreed to."

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