Simonsen Sussman Los Angeles Partner Catherine Simonsen Discusses Our Nation’s Price Discrimination Laws with Capitol Forum
On July 25, 2025, Simonsen Sussman Los Angeles partner Catherine Simonsen spoke with Capitol Forum CEO and Executive Editor Teddy Downey about our nation’s price discrimination laws - and why they should be enforced.
Simonsen explained how under-enforcement of our federal and state price discrimination laws over the last 50 years has led to excessive levels of corporate consolidation and rent-seeking and the under-production of goods and services, and how we can use these dormant laws to take back our economy and create a fairer distribution of the benefits of competition to all.
Among the topics Simonsen discussed with Capitol Forum were:
What our federal and state price discrimination laws outlaw and why they were passed.
How corporate interests accomplished a complete side-lining of our price discrimination laws in the 1970s.
How the under-enforcement of our price discrimination laws led directly to the over-consolidation and excessive rent-seeking we observe all around us.
Why it’s not too late to turn the tide—and how small businesses can use federal and state price discrimination laws to do so.
This post will link to the transcript and video of the conference call once they are available.