FTC v. Amazon Court Filing, retrieved on Sep 26, 2023, is part of . You can jump to any part in this filing . This is part 59 of 80. HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series here COUNT III: UNFAIR METHOD OF COMPETITION (15 U.S.C. § 45(a)) 454. Plaintiff FTC re-alleges and incorporates by reference the allegations in paragraphs 1-453 above. 455. Amazon’s course of conduct—including Amazon’s anti-discounting practices, which stifle price competition and tend to create an artificial price floor, and Amazon’s practice of coercing sellers who want their products to be Prime eligible into using Fulfillment by Amazon, which makes it more difficult and more expensive for rivals to offer increased product selection—is anticompetitive and exclusionary, and constitutes an unfair method of competition in violation of Section 5(a) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45(a). 456. There is no valid and cognizable justification for Amazon’s anticompetitive and exclusionary conduct. Continue Reading . Here About HackerNoon Legal PDF Series: We bring you the most important technical and insightful public domain court case filings. This court case 2:23-cv-01495 retrieved on October 2, 2023, from is part of the public domain. The court-created documents are works of the federal government, and under copyright law, are automatically placed in the public domain and may be shared without legal restriction. ftc.gov

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