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.
Chapman Ranch is an unincorporated community in southeastern Nueces County, Texas, United States, seven miles (11 km) south of Corpus Christi. It is named for a family that purchased 34,000 acres (138 km) of the King Ranch in 1919.