New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the online retail giant failed to adequately protect its warehouse workers from the CCP virus pandemic. James’s office accuses Amazon of violating state labor laws by “repeatedly and persistently [failing] to comply with its obligation to institute reasonable and adequate measures to protect its workers” from the pandemic at a Staten Island fulfillment center and a Queens distribution center, both in New York City. “Amazon’s flagrant disregard for health and safety requirements has threatened serious illness and grave harm to the thousands of workers in these facilities and poses a continued substantial and specific danger to the public health,” the lawsuit, filed Feb. 16, states (pdf). The action follows days after Amazon filed a preemptive lawsuit in an attempt to block James from continuing an investigation of the company. The business argues that James lacked the jurisdiction to …