MASSACHUSETTS STATE AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION, INC. v. TESLA MOTORS MA, INC.

No. SJC-11545.

469 Mass. 675 (2014)

MASSACHUSETTS STATE AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION, INC., & others v. TESLA MOTORS MA, INC., & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

September 15, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas S. Vangel ( James F. Radke with him) for Massachusetts State Automobile Dealers Association, Inc., & others.

Richard P. Campbell for the defendants.

John E. Kwoka, Jr., Pro se, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.


BOTSFORD, J.

In Beard Motors, Inc. v. Toyota Motor Distribs., Inc., 395 Mass. 428 (1985) (Beard Motors), this court held that a Massachusetts motor vehicle dealer did not have standing to maintain an action for an alleged violation of G. L. c. 93B, § 12A, against a motor vehicle distributor with which it was not affiliated. In the case before us, the principal...

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