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LJN's Franchising Business & Law Alert

August 2009

Inside the New GM Dealer Agreements

By W. Michael Garner

Automakers Chrysler and General Motors changed the history of dealer relations when they stepped through dozens of state laws and regulations and terminated thousands of long-standing dealers through the power of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Now that they have emerged from bankruptcy, history remains to be written on the intriguing issues of whether GM will be able to make its new, bold agreement, heavily weighted in GM’s favor, stick in the face of state dealer laws.

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