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).
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.
Mr. Snyder announced Thursday that he would sign a package of bills blocking mandatory payments to unions by private and most public workers, and he urged lawmakers to move it through their chambers within days.
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.
Democrats from the farm belt blocked any reduction of payments to grain and cotton farmers, leading several Republicans to complain that if the measure passes, it would lead to overproduction and continue the current sinking farm prices.
Lawyers for a group of bondholders and other creditors of Adelphia Communications asked a bankruptcy court yesterday to block payments of $300 million that had been designated for Adelphia's banks.
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.
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.
