If SCOTUS rules against the right to resell, it is going to p*ss off a HUGE electorate! Most of the middle class, and almost all lower class I would imagine, depend heavily, if not exclusively, on buying second hand, be it electronics, books, and most especially, CARS!!! Private resale of cars will take a HUGE hit in people, since most don’t want to trust the scam artists at dealerships.
This government is a bunch of absurd control freaks.
Sorry publishers, but free trade works for both the big guys and the little guys. If I can't import something, then why in the hell should you be able to print them overseas and import them regulation and tax free.
Too bad the article writer didn't bother to tell why the 2nd circuit court of appeals made its anti-free market decision or even what the official name of the case was.
I dunno. American textbooks, especially engineering textbooks, have been sold at a steep discount in Asia for years, with the legend in the title page, “Not to be sold in the United States”.
I agree that textbooks are a rip off, but really, how does upholding this restriction affect my right to sell my grandmother’s jewelry? The books were sold *at a steep discount* precisely because they could not be resold into the U.S. market.
The concept of private property is constantly being eroded by the courts and big government. Even where the founders specifically provided for protection of private property (Fifth Amendment due process clause) today’s courts have weakened or eliminated the protection (Kelo decision).
If the Supreme Court does not uphold the first sale principle for imported products, we will see what is left of US manufacturing race offshore.
If a company chooses to price products lower overseas it certainly has the right to do so but must recognize it is creating an arbitrage situation which others can take advantage of. It is not the role of government in a free market to restrict the property rights of buyers who take advantage of the arbitrage opportunity created by the seller. If the seller wants to eliminate the arbitrage, he needs only to raise prices outside the US or lower them inside the US. There is no compelling economic, social, or national interest served by allowing sellers to retain property rights in perpetuity.
In the town of Bloomsburg, PA, you have a hard time selling anyone’s old stuff. There is an ordinance that requires antique dealers to report their business transactions to the local police. I kid you not. Your business records must be submitted to the police, or you’re OUT.
Last I heard (early this year) it included secondhand goods, including metals, coins; there were provisions for photographing the items, a waiting period, and more. Look it up if you want to be stunned speechless.
They could make the decision, but I’ll wait until they tell me how they are going to enforce it.
So much for selling your house.
SCOTUS rules on corporate process.
SCOTUS rules on corporate process.
America has gone down the toilet because the government has applied corporate process to We The People - and no one noticed, nor cared.
It's much easier to be righteously pissed than actually learn something and solve the problem.
Chief Justice roberts, in one of the most courageous rulings in American history, used Obamacare to call judicial notice to this difference between corporate and natural person applicability of laws. He risked everything to do this, and yet has received nothing but hatred from the very fool who are most upset about his ruling - even though he freed them.
Get a brian, moran: