Car Dealer Lawyer

I just read “Carlaw II Street Legal” by Thomas B. Hudson and the lawyers at Hudson Cook, LLP.  It’s pretty hard to write about dealership compliance and make it entertaining at the same time, but they managed to do it.  This book is a “must read” for anyone who cares about dealership compliance.  It is [...]

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U.S. Representative Vern Buchanan’s Florida dealerships have been hit with a number of suits by customers and former employees.  At first, I didn’t pay close attention to these suits because they smelled to me like a political smear campaign.  But as I looked closer, they are becoming more interesting and illustrate how the right combination [...]

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When times get tough, finance companies look closely at their dealer agreements and assignment clauses to see if the dealers can participate in the bad loans they made.  At least that was my experience.  When times were good, you never heard from the banks.  They took their repossessions and chargebacks as a matter of course. [...]

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Kansas’ Attorney General filed suit against Chad Franklin Suzuki alleging that its ads violated the Kansas Consumer Protection Act.  Chad Franklin Suzuki ran a $1.9 million dollar ad campaign that, according to the AG, promised consumers they could  “drive a new Suzuki for life with no payments or drive a new Suzuki for a fixed [...]

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The Arizona Attorney General and the Department of Financial Institutions are suing Hurricane Motor Sales in Tucson for alleged violations of Arizona’s Consumer Fraud Act and Motor Vehicle Time Sales Act.  Hurricane allegedly failed to disclose to some customers that the vehicles they bought would not pass the state’s emissions standards.  They also allegedly took [...]

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