Amazon Must Face Buyers’ Antitrust Suit Over Pricing Policy A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday allowed consumers' lawsuit targeting a policy Amazon had in place until March 2019 that restricted sellers from offering cheaper prices elsewhere to proceed under antitrust and consumer protection laws in 25 states.

Law360 covered the firm’s work in Mbadiwe v. Amazon.com, Inc., our clients’ antitrust class action over Amazon’s former pricing rules. Until March 2019, Amazon barred sellers on its platform from offering lower prices on competing e-commerce sites. Two New York consumers allege the policy was an unlawful price-fixing agreement that left them paying inflated prices. In September 2025, a Manhattan federal judge largely denied Amazon’s motion to dismiss, allowing claims under the antitrust and consumer protection laws of 25 states to proceed while dismissing claims under four states’ laws as untimely or insufficiently pled. He wrote that Amazon used the policy “to hurt its competitors, and plaintiffs paid the price.” Times Wang represents the plaintiffs as co-counsel.

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