By Jeffrey A. Babener © 1996 Both MLM distributors and MLM companies are always asking: Can states legally tax interstate sales? Who is responsible for sales tax? When should it be collected? How should it be collected? These questions are constantly put to MLM companies and their distributors.

BY JEFFREY A. BABENER © 1999 STATE: MLM LAW/NETWORK MARKETING LAW/DIRECT SELLING LAW

A selection of relevant multi-level marketing cases from US state courts.

A collection of US Courts of Appeal Cases Multilevel Marketing Cases U.S. Courts of Appeal

A selection of relevant multi-level marketing cases from US district courts.

By Jeffrey A. Babener © May, 1995 Networkers run into these statutes in Michigan, Indiana, Georgia, Louisiana and other parts of the landscape. They are not MLM statutes. They are not franchise statutes. They are business opportunity statutes, a different breed

By Jeffrey A. Babener © June, 1997 "MLM is not for me - I want my money back." Well that's okay. New legislation in Oklahoma and Texas give you one year to think about it. And the industry is following suit. If the trends continue, we may see the vast majority of network marketing companies offering the standard benefit of a one year 90 percent refund policy to distributors who have decided that the opportunity was just not for them.

By Jeffrey A. Babener © April, 1993 A three-year multi-state investigation of NSA resulted recently in settlements with ten states that will have major repercussions for the network marketing industry.

By Jeffery A. Babener © November, 1997 When start-up U.S. MLM companies operate from off-shore bases using foreign bank accounts, this raises "red flags" for U.S. federal and state agencies. Their suspicions are often well-founded.

By Jeffrey A. Babener © April 1997 A three judge panel in a court which few networkers could identify published a brief decision, challenging the basic integrity of the way the network marketing industry does business. The legal paradigm changed overnight ... man the barricades ... networkers, wake up ...