Mealey's (April 20, 2023, 12:54 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Republic of Nigeria is urging the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals not to grant summary affirmance in its appeal of a federal judge’s ruling denying its motion to dismiss a Chinese company’s petition to confirm an arbitral award worth nearly $70 million, writing that its appeal presents “novel issues” and denying that it was a party to the underlying contract from which the arbitration arose....