Legal Opinion
Fleet Wholesale Supply Company, Inc. v. Remington Arms Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 6, 1988No. 87-2862PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law, Wis. Stat. ch. 135, governs the relations between a supplier and its “dealers” but does not define “dealer” except by saying that a dealer is a distributor in a “community of interest” with the supplier, § 135.02(2), (3), which just pushes the lack of a definition to a new level of abstraction. Ziegler Co. v. Rexnord, Inc., 139 Wis.2d 593, 407 N.W.2d 873 (1987), adopts a multi-factor definition under which the trier of fact must ponder all aspects of the buyer-seller relation.
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2Cases cited8 opinions
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