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.
Arcola is an unincorporated town in Lake Township, Allen County, Indiana. Once a booming train station for farm products and a regional U.S. postal center in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the town in more recent years has become a bedroom community of Fort Wayne.