CENTRAL GMC, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant, Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of the United States, Inc.; Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, Incorporated; National Automobile Dealers Association, Amici Curiae.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued June 5, 1991.
Decided October 7, 1991.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Daniel Lee Goldberg, Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass., argued (William N. Berkowitz, Boston, Mass., Joseph G. Finnerty, Jr., Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, Md., Carol H. Lesnek-Cooper, General Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich., on brief), for defendant-appellant.
Daniel Christopher Ohly, Hazel & Thomas, P.C., Baltimore, Md., argued (Arnold M. Weiner, Bruce L. Mann, Baltimore, Md., Ronald D. West, West & Feinberg, P.C., Bethesda, Md., on brief), for plaintiff-appellee.
William T. Lehner, Richmond, Va., James A. Moors, John P. Kitzmiller, Nat. Auto. Dealers Ass'n, McLean, Va., for amicus curiae Nat. Auto. Dealers Ass'n.
William H. Crabtree, Edward P. Good, Motor Vehicle Mfrs. Ass'n of U.S., Inc., Detroit, Mich., Charles H. Lockwood, II, John T. Whatley, Ass'n of Intern. Auto. Mfrs., Inc., Arlington, Va., Stephen M. Shapiro, Kenneth S. Geller, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Motor Vehicle Mfrs. Ass'n of U.S., Inc. and Ass'n of Intern. Auto. Mfrs., Inc.
Before POWELL, Associate Justice (Retired), U.S. Supreme Court, sitting by designation, and WILKINSON and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
OPINION
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:
The question in this case is whether a truck dealer has separate franchises for purposes of state law in the different lines of vehicles it is authorized to sell. The question of how a franchise should be defined grows out of General Motors Corporation's (GMC) decision to discontinue manufacturing heavy duty trucks. Numerous GMC Truck dealers across the nation have challenged the...
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