Legal Opinion
Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 6, 1975No. 74-70PublishedCited by 1,038 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
the Court.
We granted certiorari to decide whether a minimum-fee schedule for lawyers published by the Fairfax County Bar Association and enforced by the Virginia State Bar violates § 1 of the Sherman Act, 26 Stat. 209, as amended, 15 U. S. C. § 1. The Court of Appeals held that, although the fee schedule and enforcement mechanism substantially restrained competition among lawyers, publication of the schedule by the County Bar was outside the scope of the Act because the practice of law is not “trade or commerce,” and enforcement of the schedule by the State Bar was exempt from the Sherman Act…
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