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Oct 9, 2022 · Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images. Amazon is facing a lawsuit accusing it of selling so-called suicide kits, brought by the families of two teenagers who bought a deadly chemical on the ...
- Joe Hernandez
Oct 7, 2022 · Lawsuit claims Amazon is No. 1 seller of deadly chemical used in suicides. Lawyers, who are representing parents suing Amazon for selling “suicide kits” to teenagers who died by suicide, say ...
- Ashley Belanger
Feb 2, 2024 · It was profiting on suicide,” said New York City-based plaintiff attorney Carrie Goldberg. At issue is sodium nitrite. It’s a common meat preservative when used at a strength of 6%. Court ...
Jun 28, 2023 · The parents sought unspecified damages from Amazon for letting an outside vendor sell sodium nitrite at 99.6% purity, which they labeled "suicide kits," to their children, saying it was known the ...
Feb 4, 2022 · A food preservative sold by the online retailer and other e-commerce sites was being used as a poison to die by suicide. “Please stop selling this product,” began one review, posted on Amazon ...
Jan 3, 2023 · The court can now examine questions around whether online marketplaces such as Amazon can be held liable for selling products directly or through third parties. The lawsuit involves the deaths of Tyler Muhleman, 17, and Mikael Scott, 27, after consuming sodium nitrite, a chemical they ordered from the Amazon website.
Oct 13, 2022 · “Amazon bundles sodium nitrite with other offerings to create suicide kits,” the lawsuit writes. On May 22, 2021, Muhleman bought sodium nitrite and Tagamet using Amazon.com.
