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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
October 17, 2022 in Federal File // National board federation making accreditation decision does not act with state authority
October 17, 2022 in Discipline // Casino magnate loses appeal of disciplinary ruling when he appealed initial, not final order in his case
October 17, 2022 in Discipline // FAA revocation of commercial pilot reinstated after NTSB reduced discipline
October 17, 2022 in Discipline // Court had discretion to withhold judgment on challenge of board authority until discipline charges against licensee resolved
October 17, 2022 in Discipline // Board not required to name specific subsection of law in notice of discipline

Conditions placed on license because of past mental health troubles do not implicate constitutional rights

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held May 25 that a decision to place conditions on the license of an attorney with a history of mental health problems did [...]
Medical board websites fail to highlight—and often bury—information on physician sexual misconduct

Medical boards’ website information about physicians’ sexual misconduct is often hard to find, euphemistic, and insufficiently condemning of misconduct, the [...]
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 [...]

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