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.
New Sweden is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 621 at the 2000 census. The town made national news headlines in 2003 when a man poisoned the coffee urn at the local Lutheran church, sickening 15 elderly parishioners and killing one.