The purpose of the law is to shift money from the middle class to auto franchise dealers, who tend to be far richer.
Even if you order directly from the factory, the order must go through the car dealer.
Until 1984, people bought home computers the way they buy cars, through retail dealers like Best Buy.
Then, a 19-year-old named Michael Dell offered to sell computers directly to the public, by mail order.
If a Tesla employee simply tells a customer the truth—how the customer can order a car using the Web—that’s illegal.
Craigmiles v. Giles held that a law that allowed only licensed funeral directors to sell caskets in the state is “irrational.”
He is coauthor of the six-volume Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure and Legal Ethics: The Lawyer's Deskbook on Professional Responsibility. »