( October 30, 2026, 9:41 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Maltese solar power investor in an appellee brief urges the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to disregard the Republic of Bulgaria’s new arguments on appeal challenging confirmation in the investor’s favor of an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) award worth more than 61 million euros plus attorney fees, legal expenses and arbitration costs for breaches of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), writing that the case is “functionally identical” to binding precedent regarding ICSID awards....