( October 29, 2024, 10:09 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 28 denied a terminal operator’s petition for panel or en banc rehearing of a split panel’s ruling reversing the confirmation of a more than $541 million award in its favor against the Republic of Djibouti, which the panel said was improperly confirmed without confirming if the operator’s attorneys had legal authority to represent it....