Beleaguered Entrepreneur Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court in Defense of Constitutional Rights to Free Speech
Posted by LaLa on 09 Oct 2003 | Tagged as: Blog, Media
October 2003: Trade Union Courier
Tradeunioncourier.com
Lala Wang, founder and CEO of MLX, an online real estate listings service, this week announced her decision to make a final appeal to the United States Supreme Court to resurrect her business of enabling renters, buyers, sellers, landlords, and brokers the access and exchange of property listings, resources, and information on-demand via www.mlx.com.
Wang has spent the last eight years in a tenacious battle with state regulators over a disputed Apartment Information Vendors (AIV) license required by law of individuals selling apartment rental listings. The AIV statute is an antiquated law passed in 1975 with the original intention of preventing potential fraud in the real estate market, and without consideration for Internet-enabled business models as an alternative to traditional real estate services. In its current form, the law penalizes innovative businesses like Wang’s MLX, which offers consumers access to property listings previously available exclusively to brokers.
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