Head of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based auto dealer chain looks to avoid deposition.

Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Patrick Danner

Nov. 23--AutoNation Chairman and Chief Executive Mike Jackson is viewed as a key source of information in a 5-year-old legal dispute between Mercedes-Benz USA and American buyers who say they were cheated.

Jackson, who was Mercedes-Benz's top U.S. executive before joining Fort Lauderdale's AutoNation, is fighting an effort to make him give a deposition in the case. Lawyers for car buyers who claim they were overcharged hundreds or thousands of dollars have subpoenaed Jackson.

Jackson sought a federal court order this month to...

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