Hong Kong (CNN)Temu has sued Shein in the United States, accusing its rival of violating antitrust laws by trying to monopolize suppliers and engaging in other allegedly illegal behavior.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Massachusetts federal court, is a dramatic escalation of a contentious legal battle the two fast fashion upstarts have been embroiled in for months.

It follows another complaint from Shein, which sued Temu in December for allegedly mobilizingsocial media influencers to disparage Shein online.In the new suit, Temu claims that Shein has "engaged in a campaign of threats, intimidation, false assertions of infringement, and attempts to impose baseless […]

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