High Court Urged Not To Review Alleged Arbitrator Bias In Oil Award Dispute

(February 8, 2024, 8:23 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An oil investor owned by a Chinese company urges the U.S. Supreme Court in an opposition brief not to grant a U.S. oil company’s petition for a writ of certiorari challenging the affirmance of an award against it worth more than $392 million in relation to a $1 billion Ecuadorian oil dispute between the parties, denying that there is a circuit split over how to evaluate arbitrator bias claims....