( January 23, 2026, 12:24 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two Qatari financial firms that were sued for purportedly providing financial assistance to terrorists filed a waiver in the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 22, declining to respond to a petition for a writ of certiorari, in which the law firm that represented the underlying plaintiffs urges the high court to prevent foreign litigants from using a federal law that permits discovery for use in foreign proceedings as a means of evading “binding protective orders” protecting sensitive materials from discovery....