Informed of the security breach, the State Treasury Department, which manages surplus equipment, stopped auctioning computers last year.
The Hôtel des Ventes also stepped in to fill a void for rare book sales in Geneva, Mr. Piguet said, after Christie's stopped auctioning them about a decade ago.
One group, Points of Light, abruptly stopped auctioning off travel packages through its online store after finding "abnormalities" in the business practices of the contractor hired to run it.
A group of French auctioneers have asked a Paris court to stop the auction, set for Sept. 28, maintaining that only French auctioneers were authorized to hold "judicial sales," auctions ordered by a French court.
See also Neil Kelley's "Heritage Auctions: Stop the auction of illegally collected Mongolian dinosaur fossils" (http://www.change.org/petitions/heritage-auctions-stop-the-auction-of-illegally-collected-mongolian-dinosaur-fossils) for additional information.
[Page C3.] Judge Tries to Stop Yukos Auction A judge in Houston tried to temporarily halt Russia's planned auction of the most profitable unit of Yukos.
In 2010 court orders threatened to stop the auction for the project.
He asked Mr. Lindquist to stop the auction, and offered a little bit more than the eBay price.
Edwards had worked with Green to stop the auction, which took place, in spite of the uproar, almost two months after Green's body was found.
A former Italian culture minister, Francesco Rutelli, says he is trying to stop Bonhams auction house in London from selling several archaeological artifacts that he contends may have been looted in Italy.
But P. Randall Knece, the judge overseeing the Wellmans' case in Pickaway County, has refused to stop the auction, even though ownership of the note at the time of foreclosure was not assigned to National City Mortgage, which is forcing the sale.
