Oh okay then, that makes more sense I suppose. I think it was around the time when I had first started venturing out on my own and actually buying things here so I didn't get the full gist of it. I probably heard the 'you can't sell in imperial, it must be metric' bit and panicked!
I know there was a lot of hype about it but then disappeared.
The actual law of it would probably be very interesting to know though because I never really looked that closely at the actual scales and always just rode through on the "ignorant american" angle for not knowing how much stuff I actually wanted in metric terms. It's simple, I'm sure, if I really thought about it but it's hard to when buying something used to be so automatic.
Unfortunately, the law firm I work for wouldn't know the answer but at least I can tell you probably who's likely to win in a road traffic accident dispute! LOL!