Sogo retracted its request for debt forgiveness after public criticism of the deal led Shizuka Kamei, a senior official of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, to ask company officials to abandon the plan, Sogo's president, Kyoichi Yamada, said.
His solicitors wrote to the Candys in July threatening to ask for a court ruling to freeze their assets.
The owners of Oxford United's Kassam Stadium have asked for the ruling to list the ground as a community asset to be reviewed.
The controversial EU "right to be forgotten" ruling allows anyone to ask Google to remove offending articles or other content from search results.
"We are disappointed in the Magistrate's ruling and plan to ask the District Judge to review the matter in the coming days," said a DoJ spokesperson.
The questions raised by that ruling were easy to ask, but difficult to answer: Do defendants have to make false public statements to be deemed as participating in, as opposed to aiding, a securities fraud?
For its part, Bristol, a small software company based in Danbury, Conn., said that based on the Bridgeport ruling, the company planned to ask for a new trial.
Ars Technica also notes that the requests would probably not be admitted under the EU's "Right To Be Forgotten" ruling, which allows users to ask Google to take down information if they are "inadequate, irrelevant, or no longer relevant".
Ivan Nikitchuk, a Communist party deputy, said recent events and the Ukraine crisis in particular have led five MPs, including two from the ruling United Russia party, to ask the prosecutor general, Yury Chaika, to examine Gorbachev, 83.
