{"id":676563,"date":"2026-01-06T00:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676563\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:40:12","slug":"amazon-must-face-price-gouging-lawsuit-us-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676563\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon must face price gouging lawsuit, US judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                        <b>By<\/b><br \/>\n                                        <br \/>Reuters\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    <b>Published<\/b><br \/>\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                                        January 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content col-md-8 offset-md-1\">\n                                A U.S. judge on Monday rejected <a class=\"fnwAddLinks\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.fashionnetwork.com\/tags-amazon\" title=\"Amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>.com&#8217;s bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the online retailer of price gouging during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"news-image\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/61e3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic\/Illustration\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-md-8 offset-md-1 article-content--texte\">U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle, Amazon&#8217;s hometown, found &#8220;unpersuasive&#8221; a claim by Amazon that Washington state consumer protection laws were vague as applied to pricing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-md-8 offset-md-1 article-content--texte\">Consumers in the proposed class action claimed to suffer losses because Amazon failed to take steps to prevent sellers from using its platform to charge excessive prices.\n                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                \u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2026 All rights reserved.\n                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Reuters Published January 5, 2026 A U.S. judge on Monday rejected Amazon.com&#8217;s bid to dismiss a lawsuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[324,952,748,393,2584,4884,15909,5775,1144,15910,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-676563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-amazon","10":"tag-beauty","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-fashion","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-luxury","16":"tag-network","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-professionals","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115845373910088967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}