( April 17, 2024, 11:40 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — An attorney who represented several heirs of a Saudi Arabian sheikh in unsuccessful attempts to confirm a controversial $18 billion award against two oil companies tells the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an appellant brief that a more than $268,000 sanction against him for filing a fake news article is the product of an “abuse of judicial authority, corruption and collusion.”...