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Lol, on what legal grounds does he sue and demand compensation? I hope he looses
As far as I know the situation is:
Tesla challenges the very last point - Why can no one (not only Tesla) just go and pick them up? Why is there a need to explicitly mail them?
Because the Law stipulates that it's send via Mail
Yeah, and they use that specific postal company because it's the biggest in Sweden and is government owned.
But the Government has nothing to do with the workers on strike
No, but I will admit that Tesla should be allowed to go and physically collect the licence plates themselves. Otherwise it would be like the government is encouraging the strike which is not ideal when they shouldn't be involved at all.
And a court also decided that yesterday.
No it doesnt, it's not law. That's just how they decided to do it, and is why Tesla just won an injunction forcing them to allow pickup
Yes my bad. The Contractor was contractually obliged to use that company, that's a difference. You are right
The suit is against the Swedish Transport Agency, according to the article.
In some cases, you can't sue the state due to sovereign immunity. However, in this case, it's acting as a business. And I'm pretty sure that in the US, when the government is acting as a business, sovereign immunity generally doesn't apply.
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In the US, it sounds like originally you couldn't sue the postal service due to sovereign immunity. Then the US waived sovereign immunity in a number of cases, but specifically kept an exception for delayed mail, not exposing the USPS to liability for it. So my guess is that this lawsuit couldn't happen in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolan_v._United_States_Postal_Service
But it sounds like that's pretty borderline, and if Sweden's legal environment is slightly different, it might be acceptable to sue on that point in Sweden.
EDIT: Oh, I'm sorry. PostNord is the equivalent to the USPS, the SOE that does the delivery, and where the strike is occurring. The STA is the license-issuing authority.