Some hacktivists reacted to PayPal's blocking of payments to WikiLeaks with Operation Payback, a denial-of-service attack to temporarily take down the website.
They are not the only banks to offer this option: Lloyds TSB and Bank of Scotland (both part of the same group) have similar accounts for £10 a month, while HSBC charges £15 a month for a package of measures, including the blocking of payments.
German regulators want to look at "product reviews, the non-transparent termination and blocking of sellers' accounts, withholding or delaying payment, clauses assigning rights to use the information material which a seller has to provide with regard to the products offered and terms of business on pan-European despatch".
(Allianz, based in Germany, had committed in 2008 to buying naming rights to the New Meadowlands Stadium for $25 million a year, but the Jets and the Giants pulled out of talks after publicity over the company's role in insuring Nazi facilities, including Auschwitz, and of blocking payment of survivors' claims after the Holocaust).
A group of congressmen who have often been hostile to the United Nations have established multiple hurdles to full American participation, blocking payment of past dues and some new assessments.
But Mr. Picard has blocked payment of most of Mr. Chais's legal bills, according to his lawyer, Eugene Licker of Loeb & Loeb, who has continued to handle the case despite the difficulty in getting paid.
The supermarket chain announced in October it was blocking payments of £1.2m to Philip Clarke and £970,800 to Laurie McIlwee while it investigated last year's £263m accounting scandal, which came to light after the pair left last year.
Lawyers for German industry joined with lawyers for Nazi-era slave laborers yesterday to appeal a decision by a federal judge that they say will block payment of reparations to victims of the Nazi regime.
The Senate also approved an amendment to block payment of bonuses to senior executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In the other case, the trade representative's office accused China of illegally blocking American electronic payment companies from access to its markets, through its support of a state-financed company, China Union Pay, which has had a monopoly since 2001 over renminbi-denominated debit and credit card payments in China.
City officials blocked payment of the claim.
