( July 11, 2023, 12:21 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals again affirmed that a federal court properly exercised its jurisdiction in granting six award-creditors’ writs of attachment to enforce judgments collectively worth more than $2. 7 billion against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela S. A. (PDVSA) as an alter ego of the state, finding that its alter ego status was not ended by changes in the republic’s leadership. . . .