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The Sixth Circuit issued its opinion in the
Online Merchants Guild v. Cameron case on April 29, 2021, dissolving a preliminary injunction that had prevented the Kentucky Attorney General from investigating alleged violations of Kentucky’s price gouging laws, and remanding to the district court for further proceedings.
Last June, a Kentucky federal court had granted a preliminary injunction to the Online Merchants Guild, halting the AG’s investigations “into potentially excessive prices charged on Amazon’s online store.” The Online Merchants Guild argued that Kentucky’s enforcement of its price gouging laws violated the dormant Commerce clause for multiple reasons, including that they were impermissibly extraterritorial. According to the Online Merchants Guild, because their sales of goods in Amazon’s online marketplace were governed by Amazon’s own internal requirement that all goods in the Amazon marketplace be priced the same nationwide, by investigating viol
Friday, May 7, 2021
The Sixth Circuit issued its opinion in the
Online Merchants Guild v. Cameron case on April 29, 2021, dissolving a preliminary injunction that had prevented the Kentucky Attorney General from investigating alleged violations of Kentucky’s price gouging laws, and remanding to the district court for further proceedings.
Last June, a Kentucky federal court had granted a preliminary injunction to the Online Merchants Guild, halting the AG’s investigations “into potentially excessive prices charged on Amazon’s online store.” The Online Merchants Guild argued that Kentucky’s enforcement of its price gouging laws violated the dormant Commerce clause for multiple reasons, including that they were impermissibly extraterritorial. According to the Online Merchants Guild, because their sales of goods in Amazon’s online marketplace were governed by Amazon’s own internal requirement that all goods in the Amazon marketplace be priced the same
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) â The constitutionality of Kentuckyâs price-gouging law has survived a legal attack against it by the Online Merchants Guild.
Attorney General Daniel Cameron said Thursday that the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously lifted a preliminary injunction by the district court, which had prohibited the Attorney Generalâs Office from investigating alleged price gouging of Kentuckians by third-party Amazon sellers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March 2020, after Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency due to the pandemic and activated the price-gouging law, the Attorney Generalâs Office of Consumer Protection announced it had issued subpoenas to Kentucky-based third-party sellers that u