Courts shunt interpersonal disputes to ADR because they consider them junk cases

Evidence

Critics also contend that government gives first-class treatment to business cases, while palming off interpersonal disputes to ADR. Undoubtedly, courts are eager to avoid involvement in interpersonal disputes, which court personnel often refer to as “junk cases,” complaining that they “don’t belong here.” Such reluctance to deal with interpersonal disputes derives, at least in part, from the recognition that courts are ill-equipped to resolve such disputes. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1187

Categorization

• XREF: Court staff labeling interpersonal disputes as ‘junk cases’ illustrates institutional value hierarchies bearing on the course’s justice/fairness foundations. — connects to: Civil justice reform uniformly pushes settlement so trials become anomalous exceptions — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2384; Ad hoc adjudication breaks litigant participation and undermines its legitimacy — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 3312; The ADR movement arose in the 1970s to ease court caseloads and costs — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1163
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1187