The U.S. Department of Labor cannot withhold workplace injury data for online retailer Amazon’s warehouses because the law requires those records be released to employees upon request with no restrictions on subsequent disclosures, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreThe Department of Labor must provide unredacted copies of Amazon’s injury and illness data to the Center for Investigative Reporting, a federal court in California ruled. Amazon submitted its Form 300As to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration at a time when the agency stated it would publicly post the data.
Read moreA 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.”
Read moreIn a dispute over the withholding of workplace safety records, a federal judge on Monday called Amazon’s practice of marking as “confidential” government-mandated logs of injuries and illnesses at its warehouses potentially disturbing.
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Amazon banned police use of its facial-recognition technology for a year, making it the latest tech giant to step back from law-enforcement use of systems that have faced criticism for incorrectly identifying people with darker skin
Read moreNew West Michigan III Industrial Investors sued Amazon.com for more than $10 million in federal court, claiming Amazon began demolishing a building to be used for a distribution center while negotiations were continuing, then backed out of the lease.
Read moreA family sued Amazon.com in Brooklyn Federal Court, claiming it evaded state and federal guidelines at its fulfillment center on Staten Island, leading to the death of at least one employee there, and a death in the plaintiffs’ family.
Read moreA class action claims Amazon.com unfairly suspended its Prime shipping service on March 17 because of the Covid-19 pandemic without crediting subscribers for the suspended service, in Queens County (N.Y.) Supreme Court.
Read moreAmazon.com claims Robojap Technologies, Quatic Software Solutions and their operators abuse Amazon trademarks on fraudulent internet sites to deceive consumers and charge hundreds of dollars to fix “problems” with the Alexa device that do not exist, in federal court.
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The House Judiciary Committee asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Friday to testify about an explosive report that his employees used sensitive business information from third-party sellers to develop competing products.
Read moreAmazon has spent years honing the business of packing, shipping and delivering millions of products to doorsteps around the world. Now it has a captive audience.
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WASHINGTON (CN) — The United States blacklisted five international Amazon locations Wednesday in a move that the Jeff Bezos-owned e-commerce
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Amazon argued before the Ohio Supreme Court that it is not at fault for a high school student’s death caused by a third-party product.
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As companies start planning to reopen, business groups and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are trying to limit liability from lawsuits filed by workers and customers infected by the coronavirus.
Read moreA federal court in California refused to certify a class of Amazon Level 4 shift managers who claim they were misclassified as exempt employees under state law and were not paid overtime. The plaintiff failed to show a class action would be manageable and did not meet his burden to show common issues would predominate over the class member’s individualized issue.
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A French appeals court on Friday confirmed a ruling that ordered US online retailing giant Amazon to restrict its operations pending an evaluation of virus risks to its staff.
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Appeals judges are to rule Friday on a court order limiting Amazon France deliveries to essential items after staff filed a lawsuit saying they feared coronavirus infections at work, the company said Tuesday.
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A Defense Department watchdog said Wednesday the Pentagon did not violate laws or regulations when awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, though an executive privilege claim prevented it from fully reviewing whether the White House steered the contract away from Amazon due to President Donald Trump’s personal animus against the tech giant.
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A French court has ordered Amazon to stop selling, storing or delivering nonessential goods for the next month to protect its employees from the virus.
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Trademark law offers no recourse to hold Amazon liable for hosting inventory of a luxury perfume by unauthorized third parties, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday.
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