John R. (Bob) Park D/B/A Action Real Estate, Cross v. El Paso Board of Realtors, and E. Dempsey Gunaca, Defendants-Cross

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

Owning one’s own home may be the great American dream, but buying it often has more the quality of a nightmare. As the record in this case reveals, the real estate business, like man’s life in the Hobbesian state of nature, can be nasty, brutish, and short. While many — indeed most — real estate brokers ply their trade honestly, relying on skill and hard work to earn their daily bread, some resort to more dubious tactics to gain an advantage over their competitors. The question that this case presents is whether the admittedly dubious tactics of the defendant-brokers…