{"id":915,"date":"2017-12-06T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/12\/06\/legal-trend-begetting-lege-trend-3-points-from-a-direct-sales-court-win-in-the-midwest\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T20:51:00","slug":"legal-trend-begetting-lege-trend-3-points-from-a-direct-sales-court-win-in-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/legal-trend-begetting-lege-trend-3-points-from-a-direct-sales-court-win-in-the-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend Begetting Lege Trend. 3 Points from a Direct Sales Court Win in the Midwest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background:<\/strong>\u00a0The Missouri Department of Revenue granted Tesla the ability to sell directly without using the dealership process. As a result, the Missouri Automobile Association brought a lawsuit in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Appellate Court Ruling:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court said the Autodealers did not have standing to bring suit against the Department of Revenue and that the &#8220;association\u2019s challenge sounded more like a competitor seeking to avoid competition than an attempt to defend a larger public interest&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Tesla&#8217;s argument stressed that prohibiting direct sales is an &#8220;attempt to decrease competition and limit consumer choice&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Autodealers argument against direct sales is there must be a way by which to challenge the direct sales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/energy-environment\/tesla-wins-legal-battle-over-missouri-licenses-to-sell-cars\/2017\/12\/06\/486e8828-dab1-11e7-a241-0848315642d0_story.html?utm_term=.e077aea05c78\">Washington Post |\u00a0<strong>Tesla wins legal battle over Missouri licenses to sell cars<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background:<\/strong>\u00a0The Missouri Department of Revenue granted Tesla the ability to sell directly without using the dealership process. As a result, the Missouri Automobile Association brought a lawsuit in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Appellate Court Ruling:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court said the Autodealers did not have standing to bring suit against the Department of Revenue and that the &#8220;association\u2019s challenge sounded more like a competitor seeking to avoid competition than an attempt to defend a larger public interest&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Tesla&#8217;s\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":[36,51,38,48,10,17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-2019-issue","category-business-trend","category-ev-electric-vehicles","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","category-regulatory-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}