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.
Gibsland is a town in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,119 at the 2000 census. The community is best known for the nearby capture in 1934 of the bandits Bonnie and Clyde. F. Jay Taylor, president of nearby Louisiana Tech University at Ruston from 1962-1987, was born in Gibsland.