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Vol. XlIX • No. 6
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coNcord, N.H. (AP) John deere and other farm and heavy equipment companies plan to ask the U.s. supreme court to reject a New Hampshire law they say unfairly lumps their products in with cars and trucks, a lawyer representing the manufacturers said. the high court denied their attempt to stop enforcement of a New Hampshire supreme court opinion that upheld the state’s Automobile dealer Bill of rights law, which was expanded in 2013 to include protections for equipment distributors, in addition to auto and truck dealers. the tractor, construction, yard and garden equipment manufacturers say the law unconstitutionally interferes with
their dealer contracts. the state had argued that the law is a merger of regulations that dealt separately with automobile manufacturers and farm and tractor manufacturers. the manufacturers plan to file their appeal by the end of March, said Kevin Fitzgerald, a lawyer representing the manufacturers. there’s “probably a good degree of uncertainty that manufacturers, dealers and consumers are going to have to deal with because provisions of this new law are profoundly inconsistent with the actual agreements that have existed for years, in some cases, decades,” Fitzgerald said. Gov. Maggie Hassan, who signed the law in 2013, said it leveled the playing field between manufacturers and dealers. see lAW page 14