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From: atkins@opus.UUCP (Brian Atkins)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.religion,net.politics
Subject: Re: Sunday sales of cars <and booze>
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 14:21:36 EDT
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>It is now illegal (within the last 90 days) to sell cars/other-motor-vehicles
>on Sunday in Illinois.  The discussions at the time the law was being argued
>did not ever seem to discuss the issues of church.  They proponants (largely
>car salesmen) said that allowing the dealers to stay open seven days made all
>dealers stay open seven days in order to remain competitive, and since car
>salesmen are almost exclusively commission-only paid, this meant that most
>car salespeople were having to work seven days a week.  Thus the car 
>salespeople made it into a labor vs. management issue.
>
>It has started its way up through the courts, but every court up through the
>Illinois Supreme Court has found it legal so far.  It is being enforced - a
>motor home dealer in a local community was cited and forced to close after
>complaints were called in recently.  Apparently he didn't realize that no cars
>meant no motor homes either.
>
>The courts have been saying that it properly falls into a states right to 
>regulate commerce issue.

Why did they not choose Tuesday, or some other day when consumers are less
likely to want to shop for cars?

Brian Atkins   ...{attunix, hao, allegra, ucbvax}!nbires!atkins
NBI Inc., P.O. Box 9001, Boulder CO 80301	(303) 444-5710