Amazon and the U.S. government begin oral arguments in a case that focuses on how the company gets people to pay for its Prime membership program. Leon Neal/Getty Images
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Amazon and the U.S. government are facing off in a Seattle courtroom over Prime, the company’s lucrative subscription service. The government alleges that the company “tricked” people into paying for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel.
The lawsuit marks one of the biggest federal cases pursuing one of the world’s largest companies. Somewhat unusually for a dense antitrust case, a jury will determine whether Amazon broke