Thompkins v. Fuller

I concur (1) the Commissioner has exclusive power to determine the standard prevailing rates of wages under the State’s statutes; (2) that “work of a similar character” refers to projects and not to types of labor; (3) that the Stam “Survey” was inadmissible; and (4) that no attorney’s fees should be awarded. Otherwise, I put as much distance as possible between me and everything else that is said in the majority opinion.

It is easy to expose the sophistry of the majority. One need only ask, “If Yellow Bay Laboratory were a federal project, would Thompkins have had to pay Davis-Bacon…