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.
Ashland is a village, incorporated in 1963 and located in the northernmost portion of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States, just south of the Bienville Parish line. The population was 291 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Natchitoches Micropolitan Statistical Area. The mayor is W. Gahagan Lee, and the village council consists of Wayne Best and Carol Doyle, both Democrats, and Vincent Brown, a Republican. The police chief is Fred Holland, a Democrat.