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.
Bunnell is the county seat of Flagler County Florida, United States with a population of 2,122 at the 2000 census. According to the U. S Census estimates of 2005, the city's population had declined to 1,479. The city is part of the Palm Coast Metropolitan Statistical Area and is named after early resident, Alva A. Bunnell. Bunnell describes itself as the "Crossroads of Flagler County."