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.
Hanley Falls is a city in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 323 at the 2000 census. Hanley Falls has two grain elevators run by the local farmers co-op and is the site of an annual thresher show.