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.
Pooler is a city in Chatham County, Georgia, United States. According to the most recent US Census Bureau estimate (2008), the population is 14,875, an increase of more than 100 percent since the official 2000 census (the population in 2000 was 6,239). Pooler is located northwest of Savannah near I-95 and is part of the Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area.