Price-Gouging Investigations

<p>A federal court in Kentucky <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/pricegouginginvestigations.pdf">granted</a></strong> a preliminary injunction to the Online Merchant’s Guild to halt investigations into alleged price-gouging by Amazon retailers. The state attorney general’s investigations and threats of enforcement have an “impermissible extraterritorial effect on interstate commerce.”</p>

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A federal court in Kentucky granted a preliminary injunction to the Online Merchant’s Guild to halt investigations into alleged price-gouging by Amazon retailers. The state attorney general’s investigations and threats of enforcement have an “impermissible extraterritorial effect on interstate commerce.”

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