Court orders Mercedes-Benz to pay for lemon

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court told Mercedes-Benz the morning of May 25 to pay almost a half-million dollars to a Waukesha man who bought a defective car.

Businessman Marco Marquez won a $482,000 judgment under Wisconsin’s “Lemon Law.” The case has been shuffled among various courts since 2005.

That was after Marquez bought a Mercedes E-320 from a Milwaukee dealership for $56,000. He said the car would never start – and after several efforts to fix it, Marquez demanded a refund for the faulty vehicle.

The company failed to provide a refund within the 30 days allowed under the Lemon Law. Mercedes-Benz claimed that Marquez did not provide the company with enough information about the loan on his vehicle within the 30-day time limit.

The state’s Supreme Court rejected that argument, and the justices said Mercedes also had to pay Marquez’s legal fees.

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