Mealey's (June 28, 2023, 12:17 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals adopted a special master’s report and recommendations that an attorney for the heirs of Saudi Arabian sheikhs be sanctioned by being required to pay an oil company’s attorney fees incurred litigating his filing of a fraudulent news article as evidence in support of his attempts to enforce a controversial $18 billion arbitral award and adopted the recommendation that the attorney be referred for disciplinary proceedings....