In an opinion delivered on Thursday, 2 June, Advocate General Athanasios Rantos of the Court of Justice of the European Union considered that the purchaser of a diesel vehicle equipped with an unlawful defeat device must have a right to compensation from the vehicle manufacturer (Case C-100/21).
The purchaser of a used Mercedes C220 CDI—whose exhaust gas recirculation system establishes a ‘temperature window’—brought an action for damages against Mercedes-Benz before the German...