Washington’s highest court heard a case Tuesday alleging that Amazon is responsible for the suicides of people who purchased a lethal chemical from the online marketplace.

Oral arguments for Ruth Scott, et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc. were held in the Washington State Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 9, in Olympia. Justices are tasked with determining whether the Washington-based tech giant should be liable for having sold highly concentrated sodium nitrite to consumers who then used it to kill themselves.

C.A. Goldberg, PLLC is the firm that’s brought 10 lawsuits, beginning with this case, against Amazon on behalf of 28 people who died by chemical suicide. The legal team notes that some of the decedents were teenagers.

Amazon has countered that the deaths were due to the late buyers’ volunta

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