Former “Two and a Half Men” star, Charlie Sheen, is back in the battlefield against his No.1 nemesis, Chuck Lorre. And it looks like the embattled actor is not winning at this early stage in the game of the lawsuit he filed against the CBS honcho.

The LA Superior Court judge has ruled that the $100-million lawsuit Sheen filed against Lorre will not go to trial and the case was ordered to be settled in arbitration.

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With the ruling, this means that no nitty-gritty of the case will neither be seen on television nor be on broadsheet and the web as the parties involved in the case are forced to argue their cases indoor and away from the public eye.

Deadline is saying that had LA judge, Alan Goodman, ruled otherwise, the case ‘would have been a circus’ following an earlier ruling by the Santa Monica Superior Courtroom allowing TV cameras to monitor the development in court hearings.

Sheen’s camp wanted it but Lorre’s team didn’t. This time, Lorre won, Charlie lost big time, another blow to the beleaguered actor after losing his job on March 7.

The judge’s decision was well-received by the Warner Bros. TV.

"We're very gratified by the court's ruling enforcing the parties' arbitration agreement," WBTV was quoted as saying by Deadline in a statement.

The court’s decision is based on the contract Sheen had signed with Men creators which stipulated that any case involving the show and CBS/WBTV will be “handled through arbitration”.

The LA judge also assigned a mediator for the case, JAMS-appointed arbitrator Richard Neal who will oversee the case.

"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," Lorre's lawyer, Howard L. Weitzman, said, according to TV Guide. "This matter will now proceed in an orderly fashion as the parties agreed to."

Sheen’s lawyer, Marty Singer, filed the case ten days after Sheen was officially fired by the Warner Bros TV. But Lorre was the target of the lawsuit in the beliefs that the CBS producer had influenced WBTV when it decided to ax Sheen from America’s top-watched comedy show on television.

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