{"id":354116,"date":"2026-01-05T22:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:57:09","slug":"amazon-must-face-price-gouging-lawsuit-us-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/354116\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon must face price gouging lawsuit, US judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                        By<br \/>\n                                        <br \/>Reuters\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>\n                                    Published<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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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.newsbeep.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":354117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2151,712,709,59,57,58,711,710,50,713,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-354116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-amazon","tag-beauty","tag-fashion","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-luxury","tag-network","tag-news","tag-professionals","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}