Amazon.com, Inc.

September 17, 2024 A class action lawsuit alleges Amazon has deceptively posted fake limited time sale prices online for its Fire TVs.

June 10, 2024 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Amazon.com has unlawfully recorded consumers’ conversations with its customer service chat feature.

February 13, 2024 A class action lawsuit alleges Amazon has violated consumer protection laws by charging Prime Video subscribers an extra monthly fee to remove ads from the streaming platform.

November 28, 2023 A class and collective action claims Amazon systematically pays female employees less than male workers in comparable positions.

October 5, 2023 A class action alleges Amazon has wielded “price-parity” agreements with third-party sellers to prevent price competition online and trick consumers into believing they are getting the lowest prices possible.

September 29, 2023 Amazon faces a class action wherein a consumer claims the online retail giant did not refund his additional shipping fee after failing to deliver an order by the promised guaranteed delivery time.

September 27, 2023 A class action claims Amazon unlawfully collects, stores, shares and profits from the biometric data of consumers who shop at select Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores that employ the company’s Just Walk Out (JWO) technology.

May 5, 2023 A class action claims Amazon Prime subscribers do not receive the “exclusive savings” they're promised since the touted price reductions are, by and large, fake.

May 1, 2023 A class action alleges Weed Slayer and Agro Gold WS are falsely advertised in that "natural" herbicide-and-fertilizer products contain glyphosate and diquat.

March 15, 2023 A class action claims Amazon.com and two subsidiaries have violated privacy law by requesting that job applicants and employees disclose their family medical histories for the purpose of making hiring decisions.

November 10, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Amazon has deliberately misrepresented the delivery and shipping benefits offered to Prime members.

November 9, 2022 A class action alleges Amazon relies on a “layered and confusing” process rife with “dark patterns” in an effort to prevent consumers from canceling their Prime memberships.

November 9, 2022 Apple and Amazon face a class action that alleges the retailers have worked together to eliminate or at least severely reduce the “competitive threat” posed by third-party merchants.

August 16, 2022 A proposed class action claims that certain 365 By Whole Foods Market herbs and spices contain, or possibly contain, the heavy metals lead, arsenic and cadmium.

July 15, 2022 A class action Amazon has wielded minimum margin agreements with suppliers to prevent other online retailers from offering the same products Amazon sells at a lower price.

June 6, 2022 A proposed class action argues Amazon should have adjusted the cost of a yearly Prime membership accordingly, or offered refunds, after it stopped offering free Whole Foods delivery.

April 28, 2022 A proposed class action alleges Amazon has misleadingly advertised that a Prime membership includes “free titles” from audiobook and podcast platform Audible.

March 24, 2022 A proposed class action alleges at least one variety of Amazon’s Happy Belly spices contains undisclosed heavy metals, including arsenic, cadmium and lead.

January 5, 2022 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Amazon has vastly overstated the battery life of its Ring doorbells.

November 15, 2021 A class action claims Amazon has failed to pay Pennsylvania warehouse workers for time spent undergoing mandatory security screenings as required under state law.

November 9, 2021 A class action alleges prospective Amazon Flex delivery drivers were not provided with certain statutory disclosures before Amazon obtained their background checks.

September 17, 2021 A lawsuit claims Amazon unlawfully charged sales tax on the purchase of gift cards and digital goods in violation of its own representations and state tax laws.

September 10, 2021 A class action claims Amazon has violated an Illinois privacy law by collecting scans of consumers’ facial features through its virtual “try-on” programs.

September 1, 2021 A lawsuit claims Amazon has violated an Illinois privacy law by collecting voiceprints through its Alexa virtual assistant without making statutory disclosures.

August 16, 2021 Amazon faces a class action in Washington over its sale of lithium-ion 18650 battery cells.

July 30, 2021 A proposed class action alleges violations of antitrust law by Amazon have harmed "hundreds of thousands of businesses" and even more consumers nationwide.

July 9, 2021 Amazon faces a proposed class action that alleges it price-gouged consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

July 6, 2021 A proposed class action claims Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant secretly records conversations users never intended Alexa, or anyone else, to hear.

June 24, 2021 Merchants and consumers alike have been damaged by Amazon’s “referral fees,” which ultimately inflate the prices of goods, a class action says.

May 21, 2021 A class action looks to represent current and former Amazon employees in the United States who took short-term military leave from October 10, 2004 through the present.

May 18, 2021 Amazon faces a class action in Ill. over its allegedly secret use of state residents’ facial scans to improve Rekognition, image-recognition technology that the world’s largest online retailer markets and sells to third parties.

April 7, 2021 Amazon has failed to provide proper meal and rest breaks and reimbursement for business expenses, according to a lawsuit out of California.

March 29, 2021 An Evanston, Illinois bookstore alleges Amazon.com and the Big Five publishers in the U.S. have conspired to constrict competition in the market for print trade books.

March 24, 2021 A class action claims “known vulnerabilities” within Amazon Web Services’ cloud storage environment played a major role in the 2019 Capital One data breach that affected—and continues to affect—more than 106 million consumers.

February 9, 2021 A class action alleges Amazon.com has illegally withheld tips from Flex delivery drivers.

January 13, 2021 A class action claims Amazon.com and Allegheny Direct Logistics have improperly used arrests that did not result in misdemeanor or felony convictions as grounds to deny employment in Pennsylvania.

December 7, 2020 A class action Amazon.com has unlawfully "wiretapped" Flex drivers' private Facebook groups to gain information on union efforts, labor issues and working conditions, among other details.

December 3, 2020 A class action alleges the "country of origin/birth" options given by Amazon.com on its third-party seller application discriminatorily keep people from successfully applying.

October 9, 2020 A class action claims Amazon's daily temperature checks for Illinois warehouse and fulfillment center workers violate a state biometric privacy law.

April 24, 2020 A class action against Amazon claims Prime Now associates in California are owed unpaid wages stemming from weekly remote work.

September 3, 2019 An Illinois consumer is behind a proposed class action lawsuit in which he alleges Amazon.com has endangered the safety and welfare of the public by selling thousands of “banned, unsafe, mislabeled and/or recalled products” on its website.

March 19, 2019 An Amazon.com, Inc. delivery driver who was allegedly misclassified as an independent contractor has filed a lawsuit over potential labor law violations.

October 6, 2017 Amazon.com, Inc. is facing another proposed class action alleging it knowingly sold defective solar eclipse glasses before the widely viewed August 21 event.

September 22, 2017 Five plaintiffs allege Amazon.com signed them and others up for Prime memberships without authorization.