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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND

PEPI SCHAFLER Plaintiff, v. EURO MOTOR CARS, et al Defendants.

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CIVIL ACTION No. RWT-08-2334

***** MEMORANDUM OPINION To paraphrase Yogi Berra, this is a case of "deja vu all over again."1 The matter comes before the Court a second time with the filing of a Complaint alleging the same set of facts as were alleged in Schafler v. Scanniello, Civil Action No. RWT-08-1840 ("Schafler I"). Once again, Plaintiff alleges that she purchased a "mongrel car"2 from the Defendant Euro Motor Cars. She asserts that Euro Motor Cars and its officers Defendants Duke Mercer, Alex Martinowski, Adolph Tripot, Nicholas Scanniello, and Paul DiPiazza, and Defendant Ernest Lieb, who is the Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") of Mercedes Benz North America, Defendant James Dimon, who is the CEO of J.P. Morgan, and Chase Auto, the division of J.P. Morgan from which she procured financing for the car, all had duties to certify and verify the fitness of the automobile she purchased. In Schafler I, the Court dismissed Plaintiff's Complaint sua sponte for lack of complete diversity on July 28, 2008, and, on August 22, 2008, the Court denied her motion for

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Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book: "I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said," 29-30 (1998).

She contends that her used Mercedes Benz "mongrel vehicle is like a circus car after a flood put together from spare parts, in which nothing matches." Compl.

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