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Charlie Sheen and Chuck Lorre continue to war over the actor's firing from 'Two and a Half Men.'LOS ANGELES - Self-proclaimed warlock Charlie Sheen is deflecting a procedural blow in his legal war with nemesis Chuck Lorre.
The fired "Two and Half Men" got word Tuesday that a private arbitration company had accepted Lorre's request to referee their vicious dispute behind closed doors.
And he's now facing a new March 23 deadline to submit input on a proposed list of arbitrator candidates for the contract dispute, which also includes Warner Bros., a source told the Daily News.
But his lawyer Marty Singer said the seeming win for Lorre was hardly a surprise since the arbitration company - called JAMS - stands to make "hundreds of thousands of dollars" off the brewing battle.
"We're not backing down at all," Singer told the Daily News. "Until a state judge orders that we must go into arbitration, our (Superior Court) lawsuit is proceeding full steam ahead."
He said Sheen doesn't have an arbitration agreement with Lorre and deserves a jury trial so "the public" can hear the facts of the case.
Sheen filed a $100 million lawsuit against Lorre last week claiming his "inflated ego, laziness and ill-will" caused the shut-down of TV's top-rated sitcom - not Sheen's sex and drugs benders or verbal attacks.
The lawsuit claims Sheen was clean, sober and ready to return to work Feb. 14, but Lorre "unilaterally" decided not to write scripts in violation of the star's $2 million-per-episode contract.
Warner Bros. fired Sheen March 7.
Singer said he hasn't yet decided if he'll respond to JAMS by Wednesday's deadline.
"We may file an injunction, but we haven't decided that it's necessary," Singer said. "No matter what happens, we intend to initiate discovery in our court case next week."
ndillon@nydailynews.com
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