Legal Opinion
Morley-Murphy Co. v. Zenith Electronics Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 10, 1998No. 96-3527PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Like many states, Wisconsin has a law that regulates the relationship between manufacturers and their dealers. See Wis. Stat. Ann. § 135.01 et seq. (West 1997) (Wisconsin Fan-Dealership Law hereafter “WFDL”). Dealers invest in a great deal of firm-specific, or brand-specific, capital, in the goods that they carry, and many states have concluded that this leaves the dealers vulnerable to opportunistic manufacturer behavior; this belief in turn has led those states to intervene legislatively. The present case calls on us to decide whether Zenith Electronics Corp., a…
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