Court Opinion

ID: 9481947
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 08:36:04.542723+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:48:40.405169
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BEAM, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. This case is controlled by Modern Computer Sys., Inc. v. Modern Banking Sys., Inc., 871 F.2d 734 (8th Cir.1989) (en banc) and should be affirmed on the basis of the well-reasoned opinion of the district court.
Here, we have a franchisee, whose franchise was cancelled for cause upon the ten days notice provided in the contract, who is now using an inapplicable Missouri statute to extract damages from a franchisor that the franchisee had willfully ceased to serve. This is hardly the stuff upon which fundamental state policy should be built. Further, the Missouri statute that EMS seeks to enforce has six exceptions that permit cancellation without any timeline whatever. This further depreciates the argument that ninety days of notice for cancellation of a franchise is (or should be) a fundamental policy adopted by the Missouri Legislature. I would affirm.