The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has dropped a legal action in Florida in
which it challenged a dealer-friendly law which required them to pay
the same rates for warranty work as retail customers. The suit, filed
six years ago, was in the discovery phase when the court ordered the
Alliance to disclose what it insisted was confidential business
information. It was withdrawn on 2 July, according to Automotive News.
The trade association
promised to continue to oppose state legislation “that is
anti-consumer … [and] anti-competitive and could result in higher
process for vehicles and repairs” - words the meaning of which, as
we know, can differ greatly from one person to the next. In any
event, the Alliance went on, after it filed the suit the legislature
had made a couple of important changes to the law (unspecified in the
reports I have read) so when they were removed from the legal claim
what remained was narrow and confined to interstate commerce – the
Alliance’s implication being that withdrawing the whole suit really
isn’t a big deal. Perhaps the big deal in the story is that any
lawmakers anywhere could pass legislation so generous to dealers!
This earlier story is also of interest: http://politics.heraldtribune.com/2014/04/19/suit-car-repairs-move-bill-public/
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