Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/04

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Warranty survey.
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:35:14 -0800 (PST)

"Small Claims Court"....it will work provided
everybody team up in their local city/county/state
filing such claims. Then Leica U.S. will have to focus
all their resources fighting fires all over the
continental U.S. or Canadian provinces.

- --- Austin Franklin <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> > He just
> > doesn't see any individual consumer can win,
> without
> > legal representation in "class action" lawsuits.
> 
> Hi Henry,
> 
> Well, I know I CAN win.  In MA, I can sue any
> company in the US here
> locally.  No, I do NOT have to go to that state to
> sue them.  We have a long
> arm statute that is invoked via what is called a
> "93A" demand letter.  When
> I go to court, and it will typically be small claims
> court, and they do not
> show up...I will automatically win.  They can only
> appeal on a matter of law
> (ie, I never bought anything from them in the first
> place, and I was making
> the suit up), not because they didn't show up.  If
> they fail to pay, then
> they are in contempt of court, and prohibited from
> doing business in MA
> until they do pay.
> 
> I would suspect other states have similar statutes.
> 
> Austin
> 
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