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October 5, 2020 in News // Automatic expungement trend gives clean slate to license applicants facing criminal background checks
September 28, 2020 in News // Board hid investigators’ actual caseload with fake data for Auditor
August 17, 2022 in Competition // Dental board could reasonably be deemed anti-competitive market actors
August 17, 2022 in Discipline // Regulator’s decision to dismiss recordkeeping complaint without collecting records from licensee unreasonable
August 17, 2022 in Discipline // Odd double procedural error halts appeal, but prevents dismissal of case
August 17, 2022 in Discipline // Consent agreement placing licensee into inactive status during investigation was unauthorized
August 17, 2022 in Discipline // Hearsay evidence allowed where exploited patient has died

Rule barring harassment and discrimination by licensees violates First Amendment

A federal judge in Pennsylvania, in a March 24 opinion, struck down state bar rules prohibiting harassment and discrimination on a number of protected grounds, holding that [...]
Board policy for licensee rehabilitation violated disability law, says U.S. Department of Justice

Credit: Charlotte Henard,https://flic.kr/p/2mBKGBg The Indiana State Board of Nursing violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by prohibiting nurses who take [...]
Can one size fit all? 65% of survey respondents either neutral or negative on value of universal licensure recognition

Reporting in January on a new survey of licensing officials in states that recently adopted Universal License Recognition (ULR) or related license portability policies, the [...]
Federal court upholds dietician license program against charges of violating First Amendment

Credit: Maria Esklind, https://flic.kr/p/WdVT3f The U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, in a February decision, upheld the dismissal of a suit challenging the [...]
Licensee’s criminal campaign donation scheme was adverse to practice of profession and revocation was appropriate

Credit: Pictures of Money, https://flic.kr/p/s6895e A New Jersey appeals court upheld a decision by the state engineering board to revoke the license of an engineer convicted [...]
Discipline targeting COVID-19 disinformation surged during pandemic—but so did state legislatures’ moves to halt such discipline

Two thirds of state medical boards saw an increase in complaints related to licensee dissemination of false or misleading information in 2021, the Federation of State Medical [...]

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