Class certification denied for patients suing over licensing of foreign doctor
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in a September 24 ruling, overturned a decision by a district court to [...]
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Ban on conducting conversion therapy does not violate licensees’ free speech
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, in an August 30 opinion, upheld Washington State's ban on [...]
Case alleging improper use of license fees by state board must go to trial
A challenge of the use of the Louisiana state bar association's use of attorney licensing fees for advocacy and alleged [...]
Licensee’s claims alleging forged evidence of overprescribing and unconstitutional search and seizure by law enforcement to proceed
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected a lawsuit by a licensee alleging that investigators with the Texas [...]
U.S. law regulating hearing aids does not pre-empt hearing aid specialist licensing
The U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an attempt to invalidate Florida's licensing scheme for hearing aid [...]
Vermont board would take 23% fiscal hit by signing on to interstate compact
Interstate compacts—agreements among states to accept other states' occupational licenses, in the same way that states' [...]
Licensee lawsuit seeking damages for state’s deactivating his license without warning or authority can proceed
A federal lawsuit brought by an Illinois physician who claims the state's Department of Financial and Professional [...]
Reciprocal discipline cannot be based on other reciprocal discipline
An appellate court in Arizona, in a February 7 decision, struck down a board decision to discipline a doctor based on [...]
Voluntary IRS certification scheme does not violate APA
Addressing a long-simmering controversy over the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's authority to regulate tax preparers, the [...]