Mealey's (November 17, 2023, 1:18 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Republic of Nigeria writes in an appellant brief to the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that an arbitral award worth nearly $70 million in favor of a Chinese company should not be enforced under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention) because the company’s contract was with a Nigerian state, not the nation itself....