The word Mercedes kind of screams out at you -- exclusive, prestigious and quality are words that quickly come to mind. However, you can also add lawsuit and consumer fraud as words now connected with the quintessential luxury automobile company. Attorney Jonathan Selbin from the New York firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein has just turned the ignition on a national class action suit against Mercedes USA, alleging the car company took a lot of people for a ride when it sold them vehicles equipped with soon-to-be-obsolete analogue emergency response systems.

"My client was pretty upset when he got the letter saying 'your service has been discontinued'," says Selbin, "'and if you want to continue you will have to pay to upgrade to digital service'." Prior to certification of the class action suit on behalf of his client and potentially thousands of other Mercedes owners, Selbin says, "We deposed a number of people and obtained a lot of documents and sales records that support our claim."

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