The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from 17 states on Tuesday sued Amazon in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, alleging anticompetitive practices that they say hurt consumers and Amazon’s marketplace sellers alike.
“Our complaint lays out how Amazon has used a set of punitive and coercive tactics to unlawfully maintain its monopolies,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement. “The complaint sets forth detailed allegations noting how Amazon is now exploiting its monopoly power to enrich itself while raising prices and degrading service for the tens of millions of American families who shop on its platform and the hundreds of thousands of businesses that rely on Amazon to reach them.”
