MOTOR VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS ASSN. OF THE UNITED STATES, INC. v. O'NEILL

(12985)

203 Conn. 63 (1987)

MOTOR VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES, INC., ET AL. v. WILLIAM A. O'NEILL ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released March 31, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark R. Kravitz, with whom were Michael K. Brown and, on the brief, William H. Crabtree, Jane Lightfoot Wilson and Charles S. Lockwood II, for the plaintiffs.

Robert M. Langer, assistant attorney general, with whom were Garry Desjardins, assistant attorney general, and, on the brief, Joseph I. Lieberman, attorney general, and Janet A. Spaulding and William M. Rubenstein, assistant attorneys general, for the defendants.

John J. Woodcock III, pro se, as intervening defendant.

PETERS, C. J., SHEA, SANTANIELLO, JACOBSON and F. HENNESSY, Js.


PETERS, C. J.

This case comes to us, by way of reservation, as a multifaceted challenge to the constitutional and statutory validity of legislation colloquially known as Lemon Law II that establishes arbitration panels for the settlement of disputes between consumers and manufacturers of new motor vehicles. The plaintiffs, Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of the United States, Inc., and a number of individual motor vehicle manufacturers and importers,

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