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September-October 2011

September-October 2011

  • Court slaps down attempt to recover board funds
  • State settles with fired board director for $600,000
  • Governor sunsets board over pension provision
  • Board applied the term “sexual contact” correctly
  • Settlement bars use of reprimand of psychologist in death penalty appeals
  • Discipline overturned where only witness was spouse of licensee’s ex-husband
  • Molestation conviction sufficient to revoke real estate license
  • Board not required to shorten probation after remediation done
  • Court upholds reversal of discipline over missing standard of care
  • Court restores discipline for doctor who let sisters perform “surgical” procedures
  • Incorrect interpretation of “neglect” results in reversal of discipline
  • Board may require suspended licensee to retake licensing exam
  • First offense DUI does not merit suspension, court finds
  • Permanent injunction entered in blind candidate case
  • Pushed by courts, boards move to fixed-date testing
  • Board ordered to scrap test for grandfathered licensees
  • Funeral director statute engages in unconstitutional protectionism
  • Federal appeals court affirms board is “not a state agency”