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Amazon, publishers' motion to dismiss in e-book price-fixing case should be granted, US magistrate judge recommends

( August 3, 2022, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Plaintiffs bringing US price-fixing claims against Amazon.com and the "Big Five" book publishers have failed to provide a plausible reason to believe there was any anticompetitive conspiracy, according to a US magistrate judge. US Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo recommended that the companies’ motion to dismiss be granted. “The [complaint] fails to describe an environment that encouraged or required collective action by the publishers in order for them to accept agency pricing and want to distribute through Amazon. It thus provides no reason to believe that defendants’ parallel conduct was reflective of any preceding agreement. To the contrary, the allegations in the [complaint] suggest that ‘[n]o agreement would be necessary for [the publishers] to be relatively certain to reap the alleged added benefits to be gained from parallel action,’” Figueredo said.See document below. ...

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