amazon: Amazon must face California lawsuit claiming its prices are too high
A California judge has rejected Amazon.com Inc's bid to dismiss the state's antitrust lawsuit accusing the online retailer of illegally forcing merchants to accept policies that result in artificially high prices for consumers.California sufficiently alleged that Amazon's policies "have had the anticompetitive effect of raising prices on competing retail marketplaces as well as on third-party sellers' own websites," Judge Ethan Schulman in San Francisco Superior Court wrote.Amazon did not immediately respond to a request…