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Court Watch

Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.

25 minute read July 27, 2012 at 04:07 PM
By
Michael W. Tyler
Court Watch

While the existence of a “community of interest” is well-established as a fundamental definitional criteria of a franchise or dealership relationship, two recent cases illustrate that the resolution of the threshold issue of whether a sufficient “community of interest” exists in a given context remains somewhat unpredictable.

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