Amazon Off Hook for Marketplace Sale Injury in Texas (2)

Amazon.com Inc. can’t be held liable under Texas law for a toddler’s battery-ingestion injury blamed on a web “marketplace” sale of an allegedly defective remote control, the Texas Supreme Court said.

Whether Amazon is a “seller” of third parties’ marketplace products when it doesn’t hold title to them, but stores and ships them in fulfilling the order, was the question before the state high court.

Sellers “are those who have relinquished title to the allegedly defective product at some point in the chain of distribution” when the transaction involves a sale, Justice Brett Busby said June 25 in a 5–2 ...