Reuters - Amazon.com fights DC's bid to revive antitrust lawsuit over pricing

Reuters cited the Open Markets-led amicus brief in support of DC’s case against Amazon’s illegal pricing practices in DC v Amazon, as the DC Attorney General works to revive the case.

The District of Columbia attorney general's office on Thursday urged an appeals court to revive the city's lawsuit accusing Amazon.com of artificially driving up prices on its platform and elsewhere through curbs on third-party sellers and wholesalers.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals heard arguments for an hour, as the city's highest local court weighed whether a judge in 2022 wrongly dismissed the attorney general's case…

The Open Markets Institute and a group of antitrust law professors filed briefs supporting the District.

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