Two months after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to consider whether online retail giant Amazon can be subject to a products liability lawsuit under Pennsylvania laws, the case serving as the vehicle for those arguments has settled.
According to the docket in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the lawsuit, captioned Oberdorf v. Amazon, has been dismissed upon agreement of the parties. The accord means that questions about whether online retailers can be sued in Pennsylvania for potentially defective products sold on their websites will likely not be answered any time soon.
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