Amazon Loses Court Fight Over Doubled-Up Antitrust Probe
- Company sought to strike down part of new EU retail sales case
- EU lower court says Amazon’s January appeal is inadmissible
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Amazon.com Inc. lost a European Union court bid to prevent the bloc’s antitrust arm and Italy running parallel investigations into concerns over how the e-commerce giant treats sellers on its platform.
The company’s challenge to a decision that allowed an Italian probe to continue alongside the European Commission’s own case was inadmissible, the EU General Court in Luxembourg said in an order published on its website.