(CNN) — The US Supreme Court agreed to wade into Cold War history Friday by granting an appeal from Exxon over the Cuban government’s confiscation of an oil refinery and other property Fidel Castro’s regime seized shortly after taking power.

The court also said it would decide a case involving an American company that claims the world’s largest cruise lines owe hundreds of millions of dollars for using a dock it built more than a century ago in Havana.

The litigation underscores a broad shift in Washington’s approach to Cuba from President Barack Obama’s administration, which had attempted to open ties, and the first Trump administration, which shut down those efforts. It may also portend a change in how the high court views the ability of Americans to sue foreign entities in American c

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