Parler, Amazon Court Fight Lures Top Conservative Litigators

Parler LLC, the conservative social media platform whose service was suspended after the U.S. Capitol riot last month, is assembling a high-powered legal team for its antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc.

Parler has retained trial and appellate litigation boutique Schaerr Jaffe and Seattle-based law firm Calfo Eakes, according to federal court filings this week.

Gene Schaerr, a former co-chair of the religious institutions group at Sidley Austin and former chair of the appellate and critical motions practice at Winston & Strawn, started his Washington-based firm in 2014 after spending almost a year in the Utah Attorney General’s Office, where ...