(March 25, 2024, 11:42 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on March 25 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by an international group of construction firms that were ordered to pay a $283 million award to the Republic of Panama-owned instrumentality that operates the Panama Canal and that argued that the award was tainted by the arbitrators’ nondisclosures of various professional ties....