Key NY Lawmaker Says Antitrust Measure Can’t Pass This Year (1)

New York antitrust legislation that would more easily allow lawsuits against corporate giants like Amazon.com Inc. will not move out of a key Assembly committee this year, according to its chair.

“I don’t think anything is going to happen this year,” Al Stirpe, who chairs the Assembly Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry Committee, said Thursday of the bill (S.B. 335) before his panel.

The legislation would update a century-old law in the Empire State with an “abuse of dominance” standard similar to EU rules, and allow the state attorney general and private actors to sue businesses ...