
Tom Hudson
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Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - We’ve been warning for the last several years that the AGs are taking an increasingly active interest in car dealership advertising practices, and the advertising practices they are interested in include Internet activities...
Read More →Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - If the customers who buy during an [employee pricing event] pay more than the dealership's employees, the dealership's mail become Exhibit 1 in an "unfair and deceptive acts and practices" lawsuit by a customer.
Read More →Tom Hudson - The FTC's Disposal Rule requires companies to dispose of credit reports and information from credit reports in a safe and appropriate manner...
Read More →Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - A company was interested in buying a substantial part of a Georgia dealer’s BHPH portfolio of retail installment sales contracts. My contact wanted me to look over a few deal files and tell him if the documentation looked good.
Read More →Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - The foundation of the report is Public Citizen’s claim, based on its study of nearly 34,000 collection cases, arbitrators found in favor of businesses in 94 percent of the arbitration proceedings...
Read More →Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - When the dealer and the buyer are in different states, a lot of different things are happening. The business models we have seen range from the safest to the more dangerous, from a legal standpoint...
Read More →Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - The Texas Supreme Court found that Gullo Motors’ fraudulent actions merited exemplary (punitive) damages, but that the $125,000 remittitur exceeded the constitutional limits on exemplary damages...
Read More →Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - You will recall that the most potent weapon that plaintiffs’ lawyers can bring to bear is a state “unfair and deceptive acts or practices,” or “UDAP”, law. Nearly every state has such a law, and Maryland, my home state, is...
Read More →Thomas B. Husdon, Esq. - The estimated cost to disassemble the engine was $1,500. Van Eman believed that C.A.R.S. had no intention of honoring the limited warranty and would continue to demand additional tear down and diagnosis until...
Read More →Thomas B. Hudson, Esq. - The relative rarity of these transactions doesn’t faze the NCLC, or, for that matter, the press. They know a good, catchy (and loaded) headline phrase when they hear one. So, they call every conditional delivery transaction...
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