A federal appeals court has revived an antitrust lawsuit the District of Columbia brought against Amazon
An antitrust lawsuit the District of Columbia brought against Amazon was revived Thursday after a federal appeals court reversed a lower court’s decision to dismiss the complaint.
A Superior Court trial judge “set too high a bar” for the district’s complaint, which presented “sufficient facts to survive” Amazon’s motion to have the case thrown out, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled.
The lawsuit, filed in 2021, accused Amazon of anticompetitive practices in its treatment of third-party sellers, which facilitate most of the sales made through the retail giant’s online shopping platform.
