{"id":983735,"date":"2026-01-07T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983735"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:03:58","slug":"amazon-must-face-price-gouging-lawsuit-us-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/07\/amazon-must-face-price-gouging-lawsuit-us-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon must face price gouging lawsuit, US judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. judge on Monday rejected Amazon.com&#8217;s bid to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the online retailer \u200cof price \u200cgouging during the COVID-19 pandemic. US District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle, Amazon&#8217;s hometown, found &#8220;unpersuasive&#8221; a \u200cclaim that Washington state consumer protection laws were vague as applied to pricing, and did not cover the alleged price gouging. <\/p>\n<p>Lasnik said it was plausible to infer that product shortages, public health directives and the \u200bshift to online purchasing left consumers &#8220;no meaningful choice \u200bbut to purchase from Amazon despite the allegedly unfair prices \u200cit was \u200dcharging.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. judge on Monday rejected Amazon.com&#8217;s bid to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the online retailer \u200cof price \u200cgouging during the COVID-19 pandemic. US District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle, Amazon&#8217;s hometown, found &#8220;unpersuasive&#8221; a \u200cclaim that Washington state consumer protection laws were vague as applied to pricing, and did not cover the alleged price gouging. Lasnik said it was plausible to infer that product shortages, public health directives and the \u200bshift to online purchasing left consumers &#8220;no meaningful choice \u200bbut to purchase from Amazon despite the allegedly unfair prices \u200cit was \u200dcharging.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}