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“I’m here to listen to all of you, because that is what you deserve,” Ben Salop, 20, a 2022 graduate of Oakland Technical High School, told the students.

That could drive up prices around the internet, said Steven Salop, a Georgetown Law School professor and former federal antitrust regulator.

“A superficial analysis might suggest that this policy leads to the prices on Amazon.com falling,” Salop said.

No matter the outcome if the decision is appealed, the Justice Department “is going to have to update the vertical merger guidelines,” said Steven C. Salop, professor of law and economics at Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Salop outlined a possible new approach in an article last month in The Yale Law Journal.