Application of Article L. 330-3 C. com.: The Court of Cassation rules that the possibility for the distributor to exercise competing activities cannot justify application of Article L. 330-3 C. com. and recalls that if this provision does not require the establishment of a local market study or a projected sales study, the debtor of the information who supplied such documents can nevertheless engage his liability (Groupe Expert)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Cass. com, January 19, 2010, Groupe Expert v. Spouse C., n° 09-10980, published in the Bulletin More than twenty years after its adoption, the law known as the "Doubin" law, now set out in article L. 330-3 C. Com. still gives rise to novel questions, as is apparent from the judgment delivered by the Commercial Chamber on 19 January 2010 (Cass. com., 19 Jan. 2010, Appeal No 09-10980, Contracts, conc. consom., No 4-2010, comm. 92, note by M. Malaurie-Vignal). At the origin of the dispute, spouses who were members of a cooperative of retail traders had been sued by a bank as joint and several guarantors of the company they managed, which had been placed in