Word: goldfarbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practice has been the target of private litigation. In Reston, Va., for instance, Lewis and Ruth Goldfarb needed routine legal assistance in buying a $54,500 house. Though they shopped around, 20 attorneys all said they would not do the necessary title search for less than the prescribed minimum of approximately 1% of the purchase price, despite the fact that the builder had done a title search of his own and the new work was a simple matter of updating. The Goldfarbs reluctantly paid, but they also brought suit in Federal District Court on grounds of price fixing. They...
...legal fight over minimum charges is far from over. Handing down its own ruling in the Goldfarb case this month, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Virginia state bar association, as a quasi-official body, is immune from such suits. The court also endorsed two other defenses: that local lawyers making title searches do not sufficiently affect interstate commerce and that the law and other "learned professions" are exempt from antitrust regulation. The Oregon bar will rely on similar defenses. Justice lawyers are undeterred. "We simply believe the Fourth Circuit is wrong," says Bruce Wilson...
...loss of control. As Psychiatrist Walter Tucker of Boston's Lahey Clinic observes: "It is certainly natural for people to show signs of stress when they are under stress. There would be something wrong with them if they did not." Adds New York Psy chiatrist Alvin Goldfarb: "In the past, Nixon has been able to show a re markable ability to marshal his forces and to continue with admirable tenac ity." That quality has not yet been placed in serious doubt...
...station manager, Roberts is in charge of the daily operation of WHRB, while the station's president, Robert Goldfarb '73, who was re-elected Tuesday night, oversees general administration and business affairs...
Both Perkins and Goldfarb indicated that they expected a boycott by those favoring yesterday's action, thus preventing the meeting from reaching the necessary two-thirds quorum...