Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just subscribed, and missed out on the claim Austin Franklin writes about. Can you send it? Thanks, John - ---------- >From: Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: RE: [Leica] Warranty survey. >Date: Mon, Mar 4, 2002, 2:08 PM > > At 01:07 PM 3/4/02 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote: >> >>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. > > You might want to check out the Volkswagen and Grey Hound cases in the US > Supreme Court, Austin. If there are not "sufficient minimum contacts" > between the forum state and the company, then you have to chase them to > their home state. I do recognize that Leica has established the "minimum > sufficient contacts" with your Commonwealth to be sued there. > > But your basic statement is a gross over-characterization of the current > state of the law. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html