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Amazon says Subspace's second amended US antitrust complaint still fails

( February 28, 2025, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Amazon.com moved to dismiss Subspace’s second amended US complaint accusing it of illegally driving out of business it and other competitors who offered services to optimize the performance of the Amazon Web Services Network in delivering content to end-users. “The court warned Subspace that ‘speculative theories’ would not be enough for another amendment to survive. But Subspace’s [SAC] — its third bite at the apple — offers just that: speculation and conclusory labels about AWS’s motivations and intent. Its antitrust claims are still premised on implausible allegations and legal theories rejected by the Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit, and its piggyback claims under state law fail for similar reasons. To allow these claims to proceed would open the floodgates for competitors to ask courts to rewrite and micromanage the terms upon which parties deal, which is antithetical to the antitrust laws,” it said. See attached file. ...

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