{"id":841,"date":"2017-08-22T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/08\/22\/legal-trend-judge-requires-disclosure-of-lawmakers-lobbyist-communication-on-direct-sales\/"},"modified":"2017-08-22T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T18:55:00","slug":"legal-trend-judge-requires-disclosure-of-lawmakers-lobbyist-communication-on-direct-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/legal-trend-judge-requires-disclosure-of-lawmakers-lobbyist-communication-on-direct-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend. Judge Requires Disclosure of lawmakers &#038; lobbyist communication on direct sales."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan&#8217;s direct sales ban is being tested in Michigan federal court as a violation of the Commerce Clause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does that mean in normal people terms?<\/strong> The direct sales ban isn&#8217;t just a question of is direct sales a Michigan law and constitution problem, but does direct sales bans run counter to the US Constitution. Also, the Supremes can get involved- as in Ruth Bader Ginsburg et. al,\u00a0not Diana Ross et. al.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What documents is the court requiring be disclosed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 lawmakers must turn over communications about the ban with car dealers and lobbyists.\n<ul>\n<li>One of these lawmakers authored the direct sales ban amendment and happens to be married to the auto dealer lobbyist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Internal lobbyist communications for the dealer associations is next on the discovery \u00a0disclosure list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Electrek|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/08\/22\/tesla-vs-state-michigan-federal-judge-lawmakers-disclose-their-communications-over-sale-ban\/\">Tesla vs State of Michigan: federal judge orders lawmakers to disclose their communications over sale\u00a0ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan&#8217;s direct sales ban is being tested in Michigan federal court as a violation of the Commerce Clause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does that mean in normal people terms?<\/strong> The direct sales ban isn&#8217;t just a question of is direct sales a Michigan law and constitution problem, but does direct sales bans run counter to the US Constitution. Also, the Supremes can get involved- as in Ruth Bader Ginsburg et. al,\u00a0not Diana Ross et. al.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What documents is the court requiring be disclosed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 lawmakers must turn over\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}