VSL CORP.

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• Elliot McCURDY v. Texar, Inc., 575 So. 2d 299 (Fla. 4th DCA 1991)
  …d appear to believe that the Magnuson-Moss Act is only applicable where there are written warranties. Skelton v. General Motors Corp., 500 F.Supp. 1181 (N.D.Ill.1980), and Skelton v. General Motors Corp., 660 F. 2d 311 (7th Cir.1981), cert,. denied, 456 U.S. 974, 102 S.Ct. 2238, 72 L.Ed.2d 848 (1982). Yet, the latter decision, which is an appellate version of the former, was actually engaged in explaining the nature of a written warranty and its applicability is questionable. Causes of action for implied w…
• Motor Homes OF Am., Inc. v. O'Donnell, 440 So. 2d 422 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983)
  …erefore affirm the denial of Motor Homes’ cross-claim. The purpose of the Magnuson-Moss Act is described in one of the leading cases decided under said act, Skelton v. General Motors Corp., 660 F. 2d 811, 313-14 (7th Cir.1981), [*425] cert. denied, 456 U.S. 974, 102 S.Ct. 2238, 72 L.Ed.2d 848 (1982), as: Magnuson-Moss is, in the main, a remedial statute designed to protect consumers from deceptive warranty practices. Its draftsmen believed that consumer product warranties often were too complex to be unde…
• United States v. Markgraf, 736 F.2d 1179 (7th Cir. 1984)
  …s of legislators are not probative of the intent of the Congress that passed a statute. See United States v. Clark, 445 U.S. 23, 100 S.Ct. 895, 63 L.Ed.2d 171 (1980); Skelton v. General Motors Corporation, 660 F. 2d 311 (7th Cir.1981), cert. denied, 456 U.S. 974, 102 S.Ct. 2238, 72 L.Ed.2d 848 (1982). . The Fourth Circuit in United States v. Hamrick, 713 F. 2d 69 (4th Cir.1983), did not reach the issue of whether section 1981a required the Secretary to promulgate regulations. . We realize that this is a h…