Judge Won’t Dismiss Bids To Enforce $264M Awards Against Zimbabwe

Mealey's (August 21, 2023, 8:26 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge denied Zimbabwe’s motions to dismiss two petitions seeking to confirm arbitral awards against it worth more than $264 million for partial expropriation of Swiss and German nationals’ plantations, one filed by the plantation companies and one by the plantation owners, after rejecting Zimbabwe’s challenges to the court’s jurisdiction....