Examiners, state boards rethinking traditional use of practical exams, scored exams, and live patients
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, three licensing test practices enshrined in some occupations’ traditions for [...]
August 2020
Default discipline of licensee who sent rebuttal letter prior to filing of disciplinary charges is valid
The Arkansas Supreme Court, in a March 19 decision, upheld a license suspension imposed by the state Supreme Court Committee [...]
Law does not waive sovereign immunity for constitutional claims unless they involve challenge of a state statute
The Texas Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act does not waive sovereign immunity for federal constitutional claims which do not [...]
U.S. court restores emergency health law authorizing discipline of physicians performing abortions
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a pair of decisions on April 7 and 20, overturned a restraining order [...]
Architects, CPAs, engineers, surveyors push back against licensing deregulation campaigns
Thanks to a key Supreme Court antitrust ruling in 2017, generous foundation funding for occupational licensing research with [...]
Ex-licensee’s appeal of loss on defamation claim frivolous, making him subject to sanction
A litigious ex-private investigator licensee had no valid legal argument in making an appeal of a case in which he alleged [...]
Licensee may not sue to prohibit investigation of complaint
In a rather complicated procedural case, an appeals court in Arizona ruled that a licensee who brought suit against the [...]
Court dismisses board director from eyebrow threading suit
A federal court in Mississippi dismissed the executive director of the state’s cosmetology board from a lawsuit filed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]