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Court tosses suit by car dealers against Tesla's direct-to-consumers sales

In a victory for the manufacturer of electric cars, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled today dealers of other types of cars have no grounds to block the company's efforts to sell vehicles directly to consumers.

Massachusetts car dealers had sued Tesla Motors under a state law designed to protect dealers from predatory actions by manufacturers.

But the state's highest court said the law only applies to the manufacturers selling to the dealerships that felt they were injured. Tesla isn't selling cars to specific dealerships - it wants to sell cars from its own showrooms, starting with one in Natick - the court noted.

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Anything that starts to crack the stupid franchise laws is good by me. The sooner we do away with these slime-ball middlemen the better for everyone.

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B-but opportunities for graft!

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Do you mean grift? Not being sarcastic, I just like understanding word definitions.

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Hmm. There is so much to bitch about in our daily civic lives (and of course, then on UHub).

This is good news. Push-back on nanny state and some room to innovate. Cool.

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allow consumers to buy cars directly at auto auctions.

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Car dealers and mattress sales are the two worst that need to be changed for the better.

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Elon Musk for Nobel!!!

http://www.change.org/p/the-nobel-prize-committee-nobel-prize-in-economi...

Please sign it and spread the Petition.

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