March 18, 2025
A New York federal court denied Amazon's request to immediately appeal a district court's refusal to toss a proposed class action accusing it of monopolizing the e-book market, saying the e-commerce giant just disagrees with the decision.
April 08, 2024
Amazon shouldn't get to go to the Second Circuit after a federal judge refused to toss a proposed class action accusing the e-commerce giant of monopolizing the e-book market, according to consumers who have urged that judge not to seek another opinion on whether they lack standing.
March 20, 2024
Amazon is asking a New York federal court to reconsider U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods' rejection of the company's motion to dismiss a proposed class action alleging that the company has monopolized the e-book market, or to at least certify two questions for the Second Circuit to address on interlocutory appeal.
March 04, 2024
A New York federal court has let the country's five largest book publishers escape claims from consumers that they worked with Amazon to drive up the prices of e-books, but the court refused to cut claims accusing Amazon of monopolizing the market.
October 06, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission lodged a landmark antitrust case against Amazon late last month, accusing the e-commerce giant of driving up prices across the internet through its treatment of sellers on its platform, but several pending suits were already targeting some of the allegations.
August 01, 2023
A New York magistrate judge is recommending that a federal court refuse to let Amazon escape a case accusing it of monopolizing the sale of e-books, but said the country's five largest book publishers should have the claims against them tossed.
June 22, 2023
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday assessed a high-stakes monopolization suit claiming Amazon.com Inc. and big publishers have unlawfully overcharged U.S. consumers in the roughly $5 billion yearly market for eBooks, in part by entering into deals that restrict price competition.
January 23, 2023
Amazon urged a New York federal court to dismiss the renewed claims in two putative antitrust class actions accusing the online retail giant and the country's five largest book publishers of secretly fixing digital and traditional book prices, arguing Monday that the amended complaints should fail like the initial complaints did.
October 13, 2022
Amazon and the country's five largest book publishers have filed a letter asking a New York federal court to deny plaintiffs more time to amend their complaints in a pair of lawsuits accusing the companies of secretly fixing digital and traditional book prices.
September 29, 2022
A New York federal judge Thursday dismissed two antitrust lawsuits accusing Amazon and the country's five largest book publishers of secretly fixing digital and traditional book prices, backing the "well-reasoned" recommendations of a magistrate judge while allowing the plaintiffs to rework their complaints.