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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
August 19, 2021 in Administration // CSG state “playbooks” aim to reduce effect of employment-related mandates such as licensing on workers with criminal record
August 19, 2021 in Entry to Practice // Remote learning meets requirement of “full-time resident graduate study”
August 19, 2021 in Administration // Pennsylvania surveys new immigrants’ experience of licensing as part of $422,000 federal grant
August 19, 2021 in Consumer Protection // Chiropractors may evaluate patients for neurological conditions
August 19, 2021 in Discipline // License decisions can be appealed by third parties, in racetrack case

Administration

CSG state “playbooks” aim to reduce effect of employment-related mandates such as licensing on workers with criminal record

August 19, 2021

A newly published set of state-by state "playbooks" developed by the Council of State Governments addresses how states can [...]

Pennsylvania surveys new immigrants’ experience of licensing as part of $422,000 federal grant

August 19, 2021

Aided by a $422,000 three year grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to reduce excessive occupational licensing [...]

California virtual proctoring flags one third of remote bar exams

May 21, 2021

Nearly 36% of attorney candidates who sat for the October 2020 California bar exam, administered remotely, found their [...]

Case against board for refusal to retroactively renew license can continue

March 2, 2021

A case seeking to force the Pennsylvania Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs to retroactively renew a license [...]

Court reverses $3 million award against California Commission on Teacher Credentialing relating to handling of backlogged misconduct cases

March 1, 2021

In a case stemming from a whistleblower's allegations of unaddressed misconduct charges and her firing by the state's [...]

Brief suspension while mental evaluation was pending cannot be expunged from public records

October 5, 2020

A stipulated agreement that led to a very short suspension which was lifted after the licensee physician passed a mental [...]

Pandemic prompts waivers, wider scopes of practice nationwide Could changes become permanent?

October 5, 2020

The inability to administer traditional licensing exams, the switch to online learning, telecommuting and telehealth, [...]

Association of licensing boards is shielded from litigation over publication of disciplinary action

January 24, 2020

The Federation of State Medical Boards is entitled to protection under a Texas statute protecting defendants from lawsuits [...]

Court may not force board to enforce subpoenas in action between private parties

January 24, 2020

On August 20, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reversed a lower court which had ordered the state's medical board and [...]

Sexual misconduct complaints against doctors surge 62% in California

January 24, 2020

Complaints filed by the public against California physicians for sexual misconduct rose by 62% between Fall 2017 and June [...]

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