A District of Columbia appeals court panel revived D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc. in a Thursday decision overturning the trial court’s dismissal of the case.
“Viewed as a whole, the District’s allegations about Amazon’s market share and maintenance of its market power through the challenged agreements plausibly suggest that Amazon either already possesses monopoly power over online marketplaces or is close to a ‘dangerous probability of achieving monopoly power,’” Judge Corinne Beckwith wrote for the D.C. Court of Appeals. “We therefore reverse the trial court’s dismissal of the District’s complaint and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”