Breaking Distribution Barriers
Bringing Your Goods & Services to the Market
Date: September 18, 2013
Location: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Join Greensfelder for an afternoon of knowledge sharing on important business issues and legal developments impacting the distribution of products and services.
Who Should Attend?
Executives, business leaders, management and in-house counsel at companies
A recent decision in California highlights that retailers’ practice of collecting zip codes continues to be challenged. California’s Second District Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in a case brought as a class action against Chevron and other motor fuel retailers alleging violation of California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act for the collection of customers’ zip
Last month, the Fourth Circuit affirmed a ruling that North Carolina’s Ethanol Blending Statute is not preempted by the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act (“PMPA”) or federal renewable fuel program. The case was remanded for findings on whether the statute is preempted by the Lanham Act.
The plaintiffs in the case, the American Petroleum Institute and
This month, Delaware passed a law to clarify that the franchisor/franchisee relationship is not an employment relationship. The law applies to relationships that are defined as a franchise under the Federal Trade Commission franchise rule.
As we previously discussed, some states – including Delaware now – are adopting legislation to clarify that franchises are independent
A former McDonald’s employee has brought a class action lawsuit against the franchisees of 16 McDonald’s locations in Pennsylvania (the franchisor is not named in the suit), claiming their practice of paying employees via mandatory payroll debit cards is unfair and illegal.
A payroll debit card is a plastic card that works like a debit
The bill that would have modified liquor franchise law in Missouri never made it out of the legislature. The bill, which we have followed in a number of blog posts, was passed in the House in the form of Senate Bill 114, but was never voted on in the Senate before the Missouri legislative
The Second Circuit held that two trial franchisees properly asserted an action under the PMPA when their franchisor failed to comply with the notice provisions under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act (“PMPA”) prior to terminating their franchises.
The two franchisees operated five motor fuel stations in New York. Their franchisor, an ExxonMobil distributor, terminated their
This week the Missouri House passed the proposed legislation that would modify the definition of a liquor franchise under Missouri law. Click here to read our previous posts on this potential modification to Missouri franchise law.
The bill that was passed this week by the House was not the existing bill pending (HB 759), but
The Missouri legislature is again considering modifying the definition of a “franchise” under Missouri law. Specifically, with regard to alcohol wholesalers and suppliers, the modification would eliminate the requirement of a trade name, trademark, or service mark and a community of interest to be a franchise under Missouri law. The current bills follow the same
Patrick Jones and Beata Krakus recently published an article discussing how franchisor’s protect themselves with franchise agreements and how these very agreements potentially are not worth the paper they are written on. Read the article to learn more about why the agreements are unenforceable and the possible scenarios for the franchisor when a franchisee files