Nissan “Slapped on the Wrist” with $4M Fine for Illegally Repossessing Vehicles

I'm having difficulty understanding why a corporation is said to illegally repossess rather than steal/commit theft.

Whether there was a legal process defined or not, if it's ambiguous enough to have been determined to be illegal, this should not be handled as glorified breach of contract, and actually handled as what it would actually be if anyone else did it; theft, with conspiracy or fraud charges depending on how much digging the repo providers performed before rolling out and whether it can reasonably be said to pass muster.

Throw in extortion for the storage fee part. If we don't treat a company like the collection of adults they should be, and hold them to a higher standard of collective action, then it's no wonder why the world looks more like a corporatocracy every day.

The fee extracted should not only be much higher, but should also be leveraged to provide relief for the wronged.