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.
Galvin is a small unincorporated community in Lewis County, Washington, United States, near Lincoln Creek and the Chehalis River four miles northwest of Centralia. Galvin was platted on 3 June 1910 as a logging settlement. Originally named Lincoln, it was renamed in the next year for John Galvin, its founder.