Chevron Urges High Court To Not Review Sheikh Heirs’ Petition In $18B Award Fight

Mealey's (May 17, 2022, 12:30 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An American oil company and its subsidiary urge the U.S. Supreme Court in a May 16 response brief to deny a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the heirs of Saudi sheiks who say the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrongly found an $18 billion arbitral award in their favor unenforceable, writing that the heirs’ arguments are forfeited due to not being raised previously and that their attack on one judge’s partiality is “frivolous.”...