Gibsons' legal department is tougher than most. They pin you down with tight contract and they beat the hell out of you if you fail to hold up your end
Rick
That's what I've heard, too. But if a retailer isn't paying his bills -- assuming that's the case here -- then he'll eventually suffer the consequences.
I did look up the text of that Wisconsin statute. It protects dealerships from arbitrary cancellations by manufacturers. A dealership has to be informed of a deficiency (financial or otherwise) and given time to correct it, and if it's corrected in time, then a factory can't dump the dealer. This might help the store in its fight against Gibson. Just depends on exactly what happened.