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(CN) As the world’s largest commercial “river,” Amazon.com can be sued when customers sustain injuries from defective products sold by third parties on its website, a state appellate panel has ruled.
“The Amazon is the world’s largest river. Amazon.com supposedly chose its trademark because it aimed to create the world’s largest river of commerce. Amazon.com can control what it created,” Justice John Shepard Wiley Jr. wrote in a concurring opinion from the Second Appellate District panel Monday.
“Once Amazon is convinced it will be holding the bag on these accidents, this motivation will prompt it to engineer effective ways to minimize these accident costs.”
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