D.C. Circuit Won’t Rehear Nigeria’s Jurisdictional Challenge To $10B Award

Mealey's (May 11, 2022, 10:56 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 10 denied a petition for rehearing en banc by the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its petroleum ministry, in which they had argued that a panel erred by affirming a district court’s jurisdiction over a petition to enforce a $10 billion arbitral award against them without addressing the award’s annulment in Nigeria as a threshold issue....