The supreme court decided Friday not to admit illegal of Tokyo Metropolitan Government and rejected plaintiff's appeal in the overflow vending machine lawsuits. The consumer group raised the voice angerily, saying that "As for the ruling, contradiction has been filled".
The supreme court adjudicated on April 23 the resident lawsuits that consumer groups requested compensation for damages from Tokyo Metropolitan Government that did not collect the road possession fee of the overflow vending machine. Though the supreme court showed the judgment with "Tokyo Metropolitan Government is leviable from the no license beverage manufacturer about the road possession fee, the top court repelled plaintiff's appeal and claim for damage, admitting that failure of performance not to execute a right of Tokyo Metropolitan Government was not illegal.
Secretary-general Mariko Sano of Japan Shuhu Rengokai, a consumer group, who one of the plaintifves described, "The supreme court has evaded the responsibility of Tokyo Metropolitan Government while claims of the road possession fee were admitted to Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It is strange decree".
She also said that the judgment to make a little sum the fee of the possession been one the rationale of an illegal rejection is contradicted, raising voices of anger that "The court decision has fear to be going to urge the breach of law. It is not possible to consent. "
The overflow vending machine lawsuits became the lengthy trials that exceeded ten years. Meanwhile, there is details to which the overflow vending machine in the town is removed by instituting the problem of the consumer group and the Citizens group such as Japan Shuhu Rengokai.