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...facile (man to lemming: only thing I don't understand about you lemmings is why you run to the sea and drown yourselves. Lemming to man: and the thing I don't understand about you men is why you don't) and the wit occasionally succumbs to Richard Goldfarb's erratic direction...
...when Lewis and Ruth Goldfarb wanted to buy a new $54,500 house in a development in Fairfax County, Va., they needed to have a title search done by a lawyer. Since the title had been searched less than a year before by the developer, the new check involved no more than a few hours of work, but every lawyer who replied to the Goldfarbs' inquiries (20 in all) said the job would cost more than $500-based on the minimum rate fixed by the local bar's fee schedule. Goldfarb decided to sue. Last week the Supreme...
...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...