Human rights court awards damages & legal costs to British licensee wrongly charged with professional misconduct
In a June 22 ruling, the European Court of Human Rights ordered the United Kingdom to pay damages and legal costs of a [...]
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Board lacked authority to discipline physician after license expired
The state’s medical board lacked authority to discipline a physician who had adulterated drugs when the [...]
Confirmed impairment not required in order for board to mandate drug testing of nurse who self-reported DWI
Credit: Mike Krzeszak https://flic.kr/p/4KVc9W A nurse’s self-report of a DWI (driving while intoxicated) offense in [...]
No “family and friends exception”: Conviction for writing prescriptions for non-patients is crime of moral turpitude, automatically justifying revocation
Credit: www.flickr.com/photos/jamiesrabbits An appellate court in Maryland affirmed a state medical board decision to revoke [...]
Ban on hate speech as “immoral” conduct not a violation of First Amendment
A West Virginia teacher disciplined for hate speech could not challenge the law under which she had been disciplined, [...]
All 50 states have eased some licensing restrictions during pandemic to fill workforce needs
Credit: nursingschoolsnearme.com/ A four-year project to reverse the growth of occupational licensing requirements, backed [...]
Remote exam proctoring violates civil rights, California ACLU maintains
Remote proctoring of licensing examinations, for which some fields during the COVID-19 pandemic require facial recognition [...]
FBI: Impostors posing as regulators threaten medical licensees nationwide with license suspension
The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned licensed medical providers October 14 that they could be targets of a nationwide [...]
State cannot impose good moral character requirement on cosmetologists but not barbers, court rules
Page DeWolfe, https://flic.kr/p/nMCU8B A Pennsylvania court declared the state’s good moral character requirement for [...]