{"id":669,"date":"2024-05-09T22:26:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/federal-judge-dismisses-volkswagen-suit-challenging-illinois-law\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:32:55","slug":"federal-judge-dismisses-volkswagen-suit-challenging-illinois-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/federal-judge-dismisses-volkswagen-suit-challenging-illinois-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Dismisses Volkswagen Suit Challenging Illinois Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A federal <a href=\"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/immigration-lawyers.html\">judge<\/a> this week\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.ilnd.424502\/gov.uscourts.ilnd.424502.55.0.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">granted<\/a>\u00a0the Illinois secretary of state\u2019s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Volkswagen that challenged an amendment to the Illinois Motor Vehicle Franchise Act in which the dealerships that sell and service new cars are independent from the \u201clegacy\u201d manufacturers that produce them.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen Group of America, a subsidiary of German-based Volkswagen Group, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/foreclosure-lawyers.html\">District Court<\/a> for the Northern District of Illinois in December 2022, questioning the constitutionality of the \u201cMultiplier Act\u201d amendment that structured the relationships among manufacturers, distributors, franchisees and dealers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge this week\u00a0granted\u00a0the Illinois secretary of state\u2019s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Volkswagen that challenged an amendment to the Illinois Motor Vehicle Franchise Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1000,998,554,1001,423,153,339,999],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-challenging","tag-dismisses","tag-federal","tag-illinois","tag-judge","tag-law","tag-suit","tag-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}