I got a jury verdict on Wednesday after a three day trial in which a conservative North Atlanta jury awarded treble and punitive damages against a slimy car dealer. The $6999 car sale turned into a $72,000 debacle for the defendant dealer. This is the long version My client is a 30 something single white […]
I tried another slimy car dealer case against a Cobb County used car dealer before Judge Schuster this week. Judge Schuster and his staff were very pleasant to work with and allowed us to try out case. He asked sound and thoughtful questions on the legal issues. My clients were a disabled American veteran (he […]
Georgia Consumer Layer principal attorney T. Michael Flinn was recognized for his lengthy service advocating for children on Saturday March 16. Flinn has advocated on behalf of neglected and abused children for the majority of his 33 year legal practice. He has also been an advocate for battered women. He was presented with the Dan […]
Consumer advocates call it “lemon laundering.” It is the resale without proper disclosure of cars with a history of chronic problems which required the manufacturer to buy it back under the lemon law. This occurs all too frequently in Georgia. We have had success in pursuing Georgia automobile dealers for this conduct. We have handled […]
We are seeing more and more dealers fail yo deliver the tag and title paperwork they have agreed to deliver as part of the sale. Often the dealer has charged a fee for this service. The reasons dealers fail to deliver are several) they do not have the title because of some paperwork snafu at […]
Time and time again, used car dealers across the state of Georgia do detrimental things to consumers. Can a dealership sell a car without a title? I had a client come in who had just bought a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 pick up truck. My client began to make payments on this vehicle, and when […]
One of the easiest ways for used car dealers to make profit is to purchase cheap used vehicles that have not and can not pass emissions and sell them to people as normal “clean” cars without a valid passing emissions certificate. Recently, one of our clients bought a 2000 Nissan Maxima from Sheba Independent Auto […]
Recently, I had a client come in about Land Rover he had recently purchased online from Class Auto Company, LLC. My client testified that the responded to an advertisement for the sale of this car by defendant which represented the car as having “a clean carfax, navigation, rear DVD player, towing package, brush bar ladder, […]
We often see clients come in who we wonder how they qualified for the loan to buy the car. We have learned that it is because the dealer finance personnel provide false data to the finance company. Dealer Falsified Auto Loan Application I had a retired truck driver come in last month. His income consisted […]
In a recent case T. Michael Flinn represented a consumer in a claim against the dealership owned by chairman of the Georgia Independent Automobile Dealer’s Association. The consumer visited the lot and located a car and contracted to buy same. While she waited for what they told her was their obtaining another key on her […]