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July 02, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Russian oil investor in an appellant brief to the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals argues that a federal judge improperly refused to lift a stay on postjudgment discovery as it seeks to enforce a confirmed arbitral award worth more than $172.9 million against Ukraine, which has been in place since Russia invaded Ukraine and which the United States continues to support due to “national security” concerns.
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July 02, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published a tribunal’s order denying the Republic of Moldova’s request to bifurcate its jurisdictional objections to arbitration claims brought by a U.S. investment company that claims that Moldova harmed its interest in a contract to market “.md” website domains by refusing to renew its contract, finding that the objections are “intertwined” with the merits.
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July 02, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge entered final judgment against the Kingdom of Spain for more than $28.1 million representing an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) arbitral award against it for breaching the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) by rescinding government incentives for wind energy investors after the parties agreed that the court’s prior ruling denying Spain’s motion to dismiss “‘resolved’” the merits of the case.
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June 30, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on June 29 ordered three Cypriot companies that are the beneficiaries of a since-vacated JAMS award worth more than $102 million, which the court said was “obtained through fraud,” to pay more than $296,000 in attorney fees to the original award debtor, which previously won vacatur of the award issued against it as part of a dispute between shipping companies.
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on June 29 published a tribunal’s award ordering Ukraine to pay two Dutch investors $71 million in restitution for the 2015 renationalization of their shareholding in aluminum assets, plus interest, arbitration costs and an undisclosed amount of attorney fees, but dismissed their other claims for damages.
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June 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 denied the Russian Federation’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling affirming federal jurisdiction over two petitions to confirm arbitral awards collectively worth more than $252 million against it and in favor of Ukrainian investors for Russia’s alleged expropriation of their assets in the Crimean peninsula, which Russia claimed were not based on valid arbitration agreements.
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June 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 denied the Kingdom of Spain’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling finding jurisdiction over petitions to confirm intra-European Union arbitral awards against it and in favor of Dutch investors and a Luxembourgish company, which Spain had opposed as prohibited under EU law.
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June 26, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge granted a reinsurer’s cross-motion to confirm a final arbitration award and denied an intergovernmental risk pool’s Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) vacatur petition in a dispute over a $9.2 million catastrophic injury settlement, holding that the arbitration panel did not manifestly disregard reinsurance, settlement or contract law in finding that the risk pool acted in bad faith and that its challenges largely sought impermissible review of the panel’s factual findings and contract interpretation.
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June 23, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on June 22 published an ad hoc committee’s decision dismissing a Canadian investor’s application for annulment of a split tribunal’s refusal to award him damages for the loss of indirect holdings in Serbia allegedly worth 87.5 million euros, finding that the tribunal properly explained its reasoning and did not exceed its powers and ordering the investor to pay Serbia’s attorney fees and the arbitration costs.
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June 22, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted a request by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, appearing with new counsel, to postpone by 60 days oral argument in a pending appeal brought by it, its affiliates and losing bidders of a Delaware federal court’s order approving a more than $5.8 billion bid for Venezuela’s oil shares located in the United States, which the court is auctioning off to enforce confirmed arbitral awards and Venezuela’s bond debts.
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June 11, 2026
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June 22, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — An Italian construction company in a petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc urges the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider its ruling vacating the dismissal of a Chilean contractor’s petition to enforce an arbitral award worth more than $140 million against the Italian company after it found that quasi in rem jurisdiction exists over it, which the Italian company said “deepens a circuit split.”
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June 19, 2026
LONDON — An English judge granted a Bermudian insurer’s application for an anti-suit injunction against several insureds based in Texas and Louisiana who sued the insurer in Louisiana and have refused to arbitrate COVID-19 insurance claims, finding that a Louisiana state law barring arbitration of insurance disputes does not apply to the insurer’s arbitration agreement and awarding it more than $700,000 and 400,000 English pounds in attorney fees and costs.
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June 18, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on June 17 granted a petition to confirm a final award in a years-long arbitration in which the majority shareholders of a Latin American telecommunications company have defied past awards, including one ordering them to pay more than $325 million to minority shareholders, for which they were previously found in contempt.
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June 18, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on June 17 denied a shipping investor’s motion, in which two shipping companies joined, for a permanent injunction against three Cypriot companies that are alleged to have been the beneficiaries of a since-vacated JAMS award worth more than $102 million that the court said was “obtained through fraud,” writing that he would not enjoin future litigation or issue findings beyond those in his vacatur order.
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June 17, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on June 16 published a tribunal’s award dismissing a $315 million North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) claim brought by a mining investor against the United Mexican States for failing to stop a mining cooperative from blockading and seizing silver and zinc mines in which it had invested and ordering the claimant to pay Mexico roughly $1 million in attorney fees, arbitration costs and expenses.
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June 16, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of foreign and domestic insurers filed a petition for a writ of certiorari urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling they say created a circuit split by applying a Louisiana law barring arbitration of hurricane damage policy disputes to their equitable estoppel argument over the New York Convention and federal common law.
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June 15, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A split District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on June 12 affirmed the confirmation of a Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) arbitral award against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela worth more than $108 million in favor of a Barbadian oil and gas investor, while one judge dissented because the tribunal allowed Venezuela to be represented by President Nicolás Maduro at a time when the United States recognized the country as led by Juan Guaidó.
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June 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published a tribunal’s decision denying a request by Texas-based oil companies for an order enjoining the United Mexican States from pursuing a bond claim against the companies worth more than $41.8 million while the companies’ arbitration claim against Mexico remains still pending.
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June 11, 2026
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Final judgment was entered in favor of a ceding insurer and against a group of reinsurers after a Vermont federal judge confirmed a facultative reinsurance arbitration award arising from the cedent’s payment of a $100 million policy limit for a restatement-related claim, holding that the reinsurers waived and failed to prove evident partiality, that the arbitrator acted within a broad honorable-engagement clause in rejecting their asserted right to full de novo coverage review and that the reinsurers failed to show manifest disregard of the law.
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June 11, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judge denied a German claims administrator’s motion to expedite review of an appeal brought by litigation funders challenging the denial of their motion to compel arbitration of an application for discovery from them for use in a dispute in Germany over the parties’ lawsuit-funding arrangement.
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June 10, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dutch investors and a Luxembourgish company on June 9 jointly filed a supplemental brief to the U.S. Supreme Court agreeing with the United States’ recent amicus curiae brief and arguing that the court should deny review of a District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling finding jurisdiction over petitions to confirm intra-European Union arbitral awards against the Kingdom of Spain and urging the court to reject Spain’s arguments for hearing the case.
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June 05, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed an amended partial final judgment confirming four arbitration awards in a captive insurance dispute involving Louisiana reconstructive surgeons and captive insurance program attorneys and managers, as well as the denial of a motion to alter or amend the final judgment, after finding that a Texas federal court complied with the panel’s prior mandate, which required the court to remove a nonsignatory from the judgment and allow further arbitration over the awards’ inconsistencies but did not require the arbitration to conclude before entry of the amended judgment.
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June 04, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Spanish company that won an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) award against the Republic of Colombia worth more than $380 million and 4.3 million euros in attorney fees for allegedly harming its investment in mobile cellular services filed a petition asking the D.C. federal court to recognize and enforce the award and arguing that no defenses to the award apply.
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June 03, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On remand from the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which affirmed federal jurisdiction over two petitions to confirm arbitral awards collectively worth more than $252 million against the Russian Federation and in favor of Ukrainian investors, Russia filed a brief in D.C. federal court opposing enforcement of the awards on the grounds that no valid arbitration agreement was formed and therefore enforcement would violate U.S. public policy.