The S.E.C. said in its lawsuit that corporate insiders had tried "to thwart and obstruct the efforts" of the review.
Labor leaders have called for a boycott of three delis, saying they exploit workers and obstruct organizing efforts.
Government security forces are preparing a large offensive against the Taliban in Warduj district, close to the quake's epicentre, even though the fighting may obstruct aid efforts.
Such "extremism" would obstruct the efforts of the "legitimate tobacco industry" to block illegal sales to children, fight illicit commerce and invest in "safer" products.
The EU guidelines were greeted with immediate protests in Jerusalem that they would obstruct US efforts to bring the two sides together.
Dev Ratna Dhakhwa, secretary general of the Nepal Red Cross Society, said earlier he feared Kathmandu's "one-window policy" for reconstruction would obstruct relief efforts, with political parties already trying to manipulate the system to siphon off funds.
"Of the half-dozen current and former officials who confirmed the existence of the investigations, some said they were providing information because they feared the new Administration would obstruct their efforts," the Times said.
He writes frankly about the Washington powerful, especially Tim Geithner and others from the Treasury Department, who obstruct his efforts to institute fraud protections and to investigate mismanagement of TARP funds.
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell called Bannon's performance the "most aggressive effort by the White House thus far to obstruct our efforts to seek the truth".
"We witnessed today what I believe was the most aggressive effort by the White House thus far to obstruct our efforts to seek the truth," Eric Swalwell, a Democrat who sits on the committee, told MSNBC's "The Last Word".
This may obstruct management efforts aimed at controlling an introduced species during the critical early stages of an invasion.
