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, [...]
Civil Rights
Court refuses to give pro-life group abortion provider licensing info
Citing the risk of harassment and assaults, a panel of a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled July 11 that the names and [...]
Attorney seeking reinstatement cannot claim indigence to escape fees
The Tennessee Supreme Court, in a May 7 decision, held that a state law that allows impoverished defendants to access the [...]
ADA lawsuit on exam accommodations dismissed over jurisdiction
A federal judge in Virginia, in an April 25 decision, dismissed a suit brought by a law license applicant who had been [...]
Requiring doctors to document patient’s reason for abortion is unconstitutional
A requirement that physicians document pregnant patients’ reasons for an abortion and inform the patients of new [...]
Expunged conviction may not be used to reject license applicant
An appellate court in Pennsylvania overturned a board decision rejecting an application for reinstatement by a licensee who [...]
Board may probe MD’s prescribing records without violating patients’ privacy
Although patients have a limited privacy expectation in the prescription information contained in the state’s [...]
No right to interpreter for licensee’s legal counsel, Ontario court rules
A court in Ontario, in a May 9 decision, rejected an appeal by a disciplined veterinarian who claimed that the discipline [...]
Federal court cites physician free speech in halting abortion law over rules for advice and identity checking
A federal judge in Indiana, citing concerns over free speech, unconstitutionally-burdensome restrictions on abortion [...]
Law restricting advertising of specialties held unconstitutional
A Texas law that restricts dentists from advertising as specialists unless their specialty is one of nine approved by the [...]