James Robertson Martin Quoted in Global Competition Review: Parler Alleges Amazon Cuts Access in Competitive Threat to Twitter

January 21, 2021

James Robertson Martin, a partner in the Washington, DC office of Zelle and co-chair of the firm’s antitrust practice, was quoted in a Global Competition Review article titled “Conservative media site Parler alleges Amazon cut off its services to aid Twitter.”

In a lawsuit filed before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, social media site Parler claimed that Amazon had violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by suspending its access to Amazon’s cloud services.

Martin told Global Competition Review he does not think that Parler’s lawsuit works without evidence of an agreement, but that a Section 1 case about squeezing out an emerging competitor is probably the best it could muster.

“I thought the lawyer was kind of clever coming up with a theory that might work,” Martin said. “They just don’t have the facts to support it.”

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