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The Missouri Automobile Dealers Association sued the Missouri Revenue Department and now a judge has ruled in their favor on part of their claims in Missouri.
Cole County Judge Daniel Green ruled that the Missouri Revenue Department violated state law when it gave the California-based manufacturer a license for a University City dealership in 2013 and a franchise dealer license for a Kansas City dealership in 2014. That allowed the automaker to sell cars directly to customers instead of through a dealership serving as a middleman.
[...] Tesla has faced similar roadblocks to selling its cars in several states with dealership laws similar to Missouri's. In some of those states, legislators have been looking at ways to tweak laws and let the company operate.
Previously: Tesla Direct Sales Blocked in New Jersey
(Score: 2) by forkazoo on Saturday September 03 2016, @02:45AM
Perhaps on a specific wine, but not on "alcohol" or "beverages" or even "wine in general." Likewise, the dealership laws targetting Tesla may break up monopoly pricing on "2016 Kia Soul Exclaims," but if those are expensive, people will just drive something else. It's like saying Apple has a monopoly on iPhones. Sort of true, but they certainly don't have a monopoly on telephones, mobile Internet devices, pocket computers, or anything like that.
And if you have to deal with a state distributor or retailer, you are handling a monopoly on a specific wine by dealing with a monopoly on all alcohol. (I think Virginia still has a crazy system like this.) With the ability to order stuff over the Internet, local retail monopolies just aren't a very interesting class of problem in almost any product category any more. Even stuff like fresh groceries are starting to be more practical to get delivered if you live in a place that only has one supermarket.