Specifically, the ''Goldfarb'' case involved a challenge to a minimum fee schedule established by a county bar association for practicing attorneys, and how attorneys could be disciplined by the state bar for violating those minimum rates. The Court invalidated this fee schedule as "essentially a private anticompetitive activity." The Court noted that neither [[Virginia]] law nor the rules of its Supreme Court mandated minimum fees. | Specifically, the ''Goldfarb'' case involved a challenge to a minimum fee schedule established by a county bar association for practicing attorneys, and how attorneys could be disciplined by the state bar for violating those minimum rates. The Court invalidated this fee schedule as "essentially a private anticompetitive activity." The Court noted that neither [[Virginia]] law nor the rules of its Supreme Court mandated minimum fees. |