LaFONTAINE SALINE v. CHRYSLER GROUP

Docket Nos. 146722, 146724. Calendar No. 7.

852 N.W.2d 78 (2014)

496 Mich. 26

LaFONTAINE SALINE, INC. v. CHRYSLER GROUP, LLC.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 10, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward M. Powers , Northville, for LaFontaine Saline, Inc.

Dykema Gossett PLLC (by Jill M. Wheaton , Arbor and Thomas S. Bishoff, Detroit) and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (by Robert D. Cultice, pro hac vice), for Chrysler Group, LLC.

Plunkett Cooney (by Mary Massaron Ross , Bloomfield Hills and Josephine A. DeLorenzo ), for IHS Automotive Group, LLC.

Abbott Nicholson, P.C., Detroit (by Robert Y. Weller II and Kristen L. Baiardi ), for the Detroit Auto Dealers Association and the Michigan Auto Dealers Association.

Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP (by Jacqueline S. Glassman ), for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.


MARY BETH KELLY, J.

This case concerns whether the 2010 amendment of the Motor Vehicle Dealer Act (MVDA),1 expanding the relevant market area — the area within which automobile manufacturers are required to notify an existing dealership of the manufacturer's intent to establish a dealership selling the same line of vehicles as that existing dealership — from a six-mile radius to a nine-mile radius, applies retroactively....

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