SEATTLE — An appeals court in Washington reversed the trial court’s decision to allow four teens’ families to proceed in their suit against Amazon, which sold the teens sodium nitrite that they used to die by suicide. Washington law does not hold sellers to “protect against intentional misuse of a product,” and purchasing a product in order to commit suicide with it “breaks the chain of causation” that could otherwise sustain a claim for negligence or product liability.
Read the ruling here.
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