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Amazon’s Latest and Greatest Antitrust Lawsuit: A Big Tech Reckoning
Oct. 3, 2023—By Angela Karas This past Tuesday, September 26th, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and 17 state attorney generals filed suit against Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”) in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.[1] Crucially, this suit marks one of the largest antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech in the twenty-first century.[2] The complaint...
Competition Upstream of Amazon
Jul. 28, 2023—Martin Edwards | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 691 (2023). The rise of large, market-concentrating technology firms like Amazon, Inc. is driving commentators, regulators, and politicians to rethink the law of antitrust. In particular, “New Antitrust” reformers propose that the narrow focus on consumer welfare has caused antitrust law to stop too short...