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CINCINNATI (CN) An appeals panel analyzed the text of an 1855 treaty between federal officials and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and concluded in a ruling released Tuesday that the document gave individual land ownership to tribe members, but did not create an Indian reservation.
The band, consisting of at least five distinct factions of Ottawa and Chippewa tribes, sued the state of Michigan in 2015 seeking a declaration the Treaty of 1855 created a reservation. According to court documents, the treaty “provided each head of the family with 80 acres of land, or each single person over 21 years of age with 40 acres of land.”
The Sixth Circuit found that despite third-party sellers having little control over prices on sites like Amazon, Kentucky can enforce its coronavirus-era price-gouging law against in-state companies.
Amazon boxes are shown stacked near a Boeing 767 cargo plane in Seattle in 2016. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
CINCINNATI (CN) Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is allowed to enforce a price-gouging law activated during the Covid-19 pandemic against online retailers, a federal appeals panel ruled Thursday.
The Online Merchants Guild sued Cameron after one of its members was investigated and subpoenaed by the commonwealth following accusations of price-gouging related to respirator masks and hand sanitizer.
Kentucky’s top lawyer told the Sixth Circuit the state’s price-gouging statutes regulating in-state commerce can be enforced against third-party sellers on Amazon.
Packages pass through a scanner at an Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore in 2017. (Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
CINCINNATI (CN) Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron argued on Wednesday before an appeals court that laws to prevent price gouging are not only constitutional, but also necessary to protect his constituents from crooked online retailers, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The state’s arguments were part of its appeal of a lower court decision in favor of the Online Merchants Guild, which won a preliminary injunction after suing Cameron for violations of the dormant commerce and due process clauses.
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