A lawsuit by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against Amazon.com , expected to be filed as soon as this week, adds to a slew of legal challenges exposing the retail giant to billions of dollars in potential damages.
Amazon's bid to dismiss the lawsuit. Schulman said California had shown as a threshold matter that Amazon's policies "have had the anticompetitive effect of raising prices on competing retail marketplaces as well as on third-party sellers' own websites."Amazon faces a pair of consumer lawsuits in Seattle federal court.
In the other consumer case, U.S. District Judge John Chun this month said in a ruling that the plaintiffs — five residents of California and Maryland who said they regularly shop using Amazon's website — could advance their claims challenging Amazon's pricing policies for goods sold on its site., "allege the type of conduct that antitrust law is intended to prevent.
The complaint, filed by two members of the annual paid subscription service Amazon Prime, said Amazon was unlawfully "tying" the sale of third-party products to the use of the company's "Fulfillment by Amazon" program. The plaintiffs have refiled an amended legal challenge, and Amazon's latest bid seeking dismissal of the case is pending.
The lawsuit, filed in 2021, said Amazon had unlawfully barred the publishers from being able to offer their e-books for lower prices at other sites, including their own. "Prices for e-books have risen. Output has declined," the consumers' lawyers assert. "Consumer choice has been limited. Product innovation has been stunted."that certain claims move forward against Amazon but not the other defendants, five major book publishers. U.S.
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