DETROIT — A federal judge has continued a freeze on assets owned by flamboyant auto maker John DeLorean and said he would rule next month on whether DeLorean must pay a $53-million default judgment against him in Britain.
U.S. District Judge Richard Suhrheinrich said he could not rule quickly on DeLorean's bid to have the freeze on his assets lifted, a clerk in the judge's office said today.
The clerk said the judge set a March 6 deadline for the filing of evidence and arguments about whether the British judgment conflicts with a 1987 settlement reached between DeLorean and creditors of his bankrupt DeLorean Motor Co.
DSQ Properties, a successor to DeLorean's failed auto company, won the $53-million judgment against him in a British court last year.
