A civil suit is exactly the government sticking their dick in the problem. You're having a government employee (the judge) either decide the case themselves in a government building at taxpayer expense, or impanel a jury in a government building at taxpayer expense. Either way you're going to be using laws and rules of civil procedure decided upon by the government in order to try the case. Then the trial hands down a verdict that the government has the ability to enforce through seizure of things of value or by curtailing a person's rights.
The fact that the government is the arbitrating party in a civil suit is incidental to the nature of the dispute.
It may very well get settled out of court in as a result of mediation.
Regardless, it's quite possible that the parties in the wrong here make it right or right-ish somehow before this even lands in court.
I think the fact that everyone thinks the .gov needs to dogpile on with civil or criminal enforcement before that has had a chance to play out or not speaks volumes about the typical moral character around here.