Legal Opinion
Ford Motor Company v. Darling's
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided November 29, 2016No. Docket: BCD-14-433PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHjelm, J.
[¶ 1] This is the second appeal in a long-running dispute arising out of the franchise relationship between Ford Motor Company and Darling’s, an automobile dealer located in Bangor. See Ford Motor Company v. Darling’s (Ford I), 2014 ME 7, 86 A.3d 35. The relationship is subject to the Business Practices Between Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors, and Dealers Act (Dealers Act), 10 M.R.S. §§ 1171 to 1190-A (2015). 1 In Ford I, we affirmed the portion of a judgment entered in the Business and Consumer Docket (BCD) (Nivison, J.) that concluded that Ford violated the Dealers Act by failing…
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