( December 20, 2023, 11:43 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of construction firms filed a petition for a writ of certiorari urging the U.S. Supreme Court to address a “three-way” circuit split over the high court’s precedent for standards of impartiality applicable to arbitrators, writing that this standard was improperly applied in a ruling affirming a $283 million award against them for a dispute over construction projects on the Panama Canal....