Amazon must face California lawsuit claiming its prices are too high, judge says – By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) / Mar 31 2023
(Reuters) -A judge has rejected Amazon.com Inc’s bid to dismiss California’s antitrust lawsuit accusing the online retailer of illegally forcing merchants to accept policies that cause consumers to pay artificially high prices.
Judge Ethan Schulman in San Francisco Superior Court said California sufficiently alleged 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 declined on Friday to comment on the decision, which is dated March 30.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta had sued Seattle-based Amazon last September.
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