Mealey's ( February 13, 2026, 3:39 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 13 issued a consolidated affirmance of two cases in which federal judges found jurisdiction over petitions to confirm arbitral awards collectively worth more than $252 million in favor of investors whose assets in the Crimean peninsula were found by separate tribunals to have been expropriated in 2014 by the Russian Federation in breach of a bilateral investment treaty (BIT)....