Mealey's (January 22, 2020, 2:34 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Heirs of two Saudi Arabian sheiks assert in a Jan. 16 appellant brief filed in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a district court committed reversible error when it dismissed the heirs’ petition seeking to confirm a nearly $18 billion arbitration award against Chevron Corp. and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (collectively, Chevron) in a dispute over Saudi oil fields because the lower court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to confirm a foreign arbitral award (Waleed Al-Qarqani, et al. v. Chevron Corporation, et al., No. 19-17074, 9th Cir.)....