Judge Throws Out Part of Class-Action Suit Against Amazon.com

A federal judge in San Francisco has thrown out part of a class-action suit that claims that Amazon.com and Borders set artificially high prices for books ordered over the Internet. However, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel said in a ruling that the lawsuit could proceed, because she was worried about the possible anticompetitive impact of an April 2001 agreement, in which Amazon would run Borders' Web site and fulfill orders customers placed through it.