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.
Liberty is a city in Pickens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,009 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a town; the change to a city was made on January 1, 2001. It is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community, originally called "Salubrity Springs," was chartered in 1876.