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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
December 8, 2020 in Discipline // Licensee not entitled to second evidentiary hearing after 11 years of procedural up-and-downs
December 8, 2020 in Discipline // Discipline upheld against psychologist who gave patient file to opposing counsel in lawsuit
December 8, 2020 in Discipline // Complainant cannot force board to let him testify against licensee
December 8, 2020 in Discipline // Formal recommendation by hearing examiner not required in order to revoke a license
December 8, 2020 in Discipline // Licensee cannot dodge obligation to adhere to trade standards through provision in contract with customer

State cannot impose good moral character requirement on cosmetologists but not barbers, court rules

Page DeWolfe, https://flic.kr/p/nMCU8B A Pennsylvania court declared the state’s good moral character requirement for cosmetology licensees unconstitutional on equal [...]
Board may use licensee’s sealed criminal record to impose discipline

Karen Neoh, https://flic.kr/p/oKsCcL The state medical board may use the sealed criminal record of a physician charged with misconduct to impose discipline, the Massachusetts [...]
Automatic expungement trend gives clean slate to license applicants facing criminal background checks

Obtaining expungement of a criminal record has long involved paying legal fees, filing a court petition, appearing in court, and undergoing a mandatory wait. Historically, [...]
Board hid investigators’ actual caseload with fake data for Auditor

The directive in a 2016 state audit of the California Board of Registered Nursing was clear: Investigators should not be handling more than 20 cases at a time; the board [...]
COVID-19 pandemic sends many state licensing exams on furlough

One side-effect of the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic emergency, which has imposed lockdown conditions in many states, is the indefinite tabling of many exam [...]
Federal court okays class action over foreign-graduate licensing

A federal judge in Pennsylvania, on March 23, certified a class of patient plaintiffs in a suit against the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, authorizing [...]

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