Amazon sues safety regulator, denying liability for hundreds of thousands potentially dangerous or defective products sold on its platform.

Amazon is suing the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for finding the e-commerce giant legally responsible for the recalls of hundreds of thousands of products sold on its site

In the lawsuit, filed March 14, Amazon alleges that the CPSC and its current commissioners have “overstepped…by ordering Amazon to conduct a wide-ranging recall of products that were manufactured, owned, and sold by third parties,” and thus, treating it as a distributor rather than a third-party logistics company.