Beard Motors, Inc. v. Toyota Motor Distributors, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a would-be motor vehicle franchisee’s damages are not “injuries within the area of legislative concern... of [Chapter] 93B_”
• describing as “illogical” the result of granting a prospective purchaser of a motor vehicle dealership standing to sue only if it was already a dealer at the time of the prospective sale
• describing as \illogical\ the result of granting a prospective purchaser of a motor vehicle dealership standing to sue only if it was already a dealer at the time of the prospective sale
• standing limited to “[a]ny franchisee or motor vehicle dealer”
• standing limited to \[a]ny franchisee or motor vehicle dealer\
• noting the potentially oppressive power of manufacturers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).