Amazon Is Sued for Terminating Critic of Online Pesticide Sales

A former Amazon.com Inc. attorney alleges in a lawsuit that he was let go for speaking up about what he says were illegal online sales of restricted pesticides.

The wrongful termination complaint, filed in June, cites tensions within the e-commerce giant’s legal team over sales of products that the former employee alleges violated federal and state laws. Amazon has long been criticized for failing to halt sales of unsafe products until it has received complaints.

John Evans, a former judge advocate with the U.S. Coast Guard, started working as a lawyer for Amazon in 2018. His job was to make ...