Hi Peter,
You should look at the Canard Pusher, Issue 59 (April '89) and 66 (Jan '91). This gives Burt's point of view and indicates that the ruling was published Jan 28 '91 by the Federal Court in Fresno California, a unanimous verdict in favour of Rutan Aircraft Factory and directed Aviation Composites (Ivan Shaw and investors) to pay the balance of their bill to RAF of $60,000 dollars. The person you should speak to regarding the other side would be Ivan and I am sure you can get in touch with him through the Europa factory or the Europa builders groups - he is still around and doing a fair amount of flight testing,
Yours, Ron Pearson