Online Merchants Guild v. Daniel Cameron

  1. September 22, 2021

    Ky. AG Wants End To Price-Gouging Probe Challenge

    Kentucky's attorney general, Daniel Cameron, told a federal judge Tuesday to end a challenge of price-gouging investigations into Amazon sellers after a Sixth Circuit panel nixed a preliminary injunction order.

  2. April 30, 2021

    Ky. Price-Gouging Probes Of Amazon Sellers May Resume

    Kentucky's attorney general can resume price-gouging investigations into Amazon sellers after a Sixth Circuit panel held Thursday that the prospect of one state impacting national online sales isn't an "inevitable" result of state-level price-gouging probes but is instead "entirely dependent upon Amazon's independent decisionmaking."

  3. March 10, 2021

    'Why Is Price-Gouging Different On Amazon?' 6th Circ. Asks

    Online sellers faced tough questions Wednesday from a Sixth Circuit panel trying to figure out why a federal judge's order barring the Kentucky attorney general from investigating alleged price-fixing by Amazon merchants should stand even though the enforcer remains free to investigate the same conduct by brick-and-mortar stores.

  4. March 08, 2021

    Price-Gouging Rules, E-Commerce To Collide At 6th Circ.

    Kentucky's attorney general wants to investigate pandemic-related price-gouging on Amazon, but his probe has been stopped in its tracks by a court order up for oral arguments Wednesday at the Sixth Circuit that dozens of state enforcers say poses a serious threat to their ability to protect consumers.

  5. November 24, 2020

    Don't Validate Price-Gouging Rules, Egg Co-Op Tells 6th Circ.

    United Egg Producers Inc. has urged the Sixth Circuit to ignore a bid by 30 attorneys general for a broad declaration that price gouging prohibitions are always a valid exercise of state policing powers, particularly during emergencies such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

  6. November 17, 2020

    Ky. AG Fighting 'Law As Written,' Amazon Sellers Say

    A trade group for online merchants urged the Sixth Circuit not to unblock Kentucky's investigations into Amazon merchants, arguing the state attorney general is trying to rewrite the law amid the COVID-19 pandemic to allow price controls across state lines.

  7. September 24, 2020

    AGs Defend Ky. Over Amazon Seller Price-Gouging Probes

    Over 30 attorneys general urged the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday to unblock Kentucky's investigations into Amazon merchants, arguing state price-gouging rules are a vital consumer protection tool amid the COVID-19 pandemic that do not unconstitutionally interfere with a retailer's right to set prices across state lines.

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