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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
November 6, 2021 in Administration // Unrestricted license in one province entitles licensee to full license in others
November 6, 2021 in Discipline // Amendments to licensing act do not restart tolling for claims under statute of limitations
November 6, 2021 in Discipline // Failure to file agency record into evidence ends disciplined licensee’s appeal
November 6, 2021 in Licensing Applications // Rejected applicant can’t sue Montana licensing agency from distant D.C.
November 6, 2021 in Entry to Practice // For background check of licensure candidate, Nebraska can access Georgia arrest record that Nebraska would have erased

No “family and friends exception”: Conviction for writing prescriptions for non-patients is crime of moral turpitude, automatically justifying revocation

Credit: www.flickr.com/photos/jamiesrabbits An appellate court in Maryland affirmed a state medical board decision to revoke the license of a doctor who was convicted of [...]
Board immune from discrimination suit by test-taker under federal Rehabilitation Act because board did not directly receive federal funds

A candidate for admission to the bar and licensing as a lawyer, who failed the bar exam after being granted only partial accommodations, could not pursue a discrimination [...]
Ban on hate speech as “immoral” conduct not a violation of First Amendment

A West Virginia teacher disciplined for hate speech could not challenge the law under which she had been disciplined, because the law—which prohibits immoral conduct on [...]
All 50 states have eased some licensing restrictions during pandemic to fill workforce needs

Credit: nursingschoolsnearme.com/ A four-year project to reverse the growth of occupational licensing requirements, backed with significant federal funding, issued a 2020 [...]
Remote exam proctoring violates civil rights, California ACLU maintains

Remote proctoring of licensing examinations, for which some fields during the COVID-19 pandemic require facial recognition software to verify the examinee’s identity, [...]
FBI: Impostors posing as regulators threaten medical licensees nationwide with license suspension

The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned licensed medical providers October 14 that they could be targets of a nationwide fraud scheme by people posing as state or federal [...]

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