On July 9, 2026, Marks & Sokolov, LLC filed reply briefs on behalf of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to dismiss the complaint seeking over $225.8 billion in Noble Capital RSD LLC v. The Russian Federation.

The Replies further demonstrate  the complaint’s fatal jurisdictional and legal defects.  Marks & Sokolov established Noble’s claims arising from Tsarist-era debt repudiated more than a century ago and repeatedly rejected by U.S. courts are frivolous. The Replies show how Noble  disregarded the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, controlling precedent, and settled principles of U.S. and international law in an effort to manufacture a claim that has no legal foundation.

The Replies reaffirm that the Court lacks subject-matter and personal jurisdiction under the FSIA, binding precedent squarely forecloses Noble’s claims, and the complaint fails to allege any viable cause of action against any defendant. They further demonstrated that Noble and its counsel elected to continue litigating claims that are plainly foreclosed by settled law despite repeated notice of the complaint’s incurable defects, unnecessarily forcing the Russian Federation and other defendants to expend time and expenses responding to a lawsuit that should never have been filed.

The Replies represent the next stage in defendants’ effort to secure dismissal at the jurisdictional stage. In addition, Marks & Sokolov asks the Court to impose sanctions on Noble and require it to reimburse the Russian Federation for all attorney’s fees and litigation costs incurred in defending this frivolous action.