Mealey's (January 21, 2022, 1:38 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in a Jan. 20 amicus curiae brief tells the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that it should affirm a district court’s jurisdiction over an action to enforce an arbitral award worth more than $10 billion against the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the arbitration exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and said that addressing FSIA’s waiver exception is “unnecessary.”...