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A D.C. federal judge has nixed a bid to halt litigation in New York accusing a hedge fund of conspiring with Moldovan oil and gas investors to secure an allegedly fraudulent half-billion dollar arbitral award against Kazakhstan, leaving it to the state court to resolve whether the claims are precluded.