Antitrust and Trade Regulation laws aim to promote free competition in the marketplace. Agreements or cooperative efforts by two or more entities that affects or restrains competitors is illegal under these laws. The Sherman Act makes illegal any contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce and makes monopolies and attempts, combinations, or conspiracies to monopolize illegal. The Clayton Act regulate price discrimination, tying and exclusive dealing contracts, stock acquisition and interlocking directorates.
Simmesport is a town in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,239 at the 2000 census. Norma McCorvey, a.k. a, "Jane Roe", the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, was born in Simmesport in 1947.