SH> PETER BRADIE (1:123/140) wrote to STEVEN HORN at 21:55 on 24 Oct 2002:

SH>  PB> The federal Magnusson-Moss Act is the action for breach of
SH>  PB> warranty.  Almost  every state has a deceptive trade
SH>  PB> practices/consumer protection act, crafted  to protect the most
SH>  PB> gullible and inept; the ones that really need protection.

SH> Canada has nothing like Magnusson-Moss and while provinces have consumer
SH> protection legislation, these would not extend to protect a business which had
SH> been subjected to deceptive trade practices.
 
Texas has a limit as to the size a business must not exceed in order to avail 
themselves of our Deceptive Trade Practice/Consumer Protection Act.  I'd have 
to check the statutes, but the number $50MM in sales seems to sound right.  
Of course that's the cutting score for Small Business according to the feds.
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