Mealey's ( December 18, 2025, 2:20 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two Mauritian mining investors filed a petition for a writ of certiorari urging the U.S. Supreme Court to address a circuit conflict over the standards for finding that a foreign state impliedly waived its sovereign immunity from suit in federal court, arguing that the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrongly decided the issue in finding no jurisdiction existed over the investors’ petition to enforce a Zambian court’s judgment confirming an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitral award worth roughly $50 million against Zimbabwe and its mining regulators....