Mealey's (October 3, 2022, 11:58 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 3 denied Ukraine’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a purported circuit conflict over the availability of forum non conveniens defenses in foreign arbitration cases, in which it claimed that the confirmation of an arbitral award worth more than $173 million against it should been litigated in Ukrainian courts and that the Russian award-creditor was using U.S. discovery “to trawl for information about . . . Ukraine’s national security.”...