Board, not court, must judge licensee’s “good faith”
A trial court could not substitute its judgment of a licensee’s “good faith” to overrule a state licensing [...]
Sample Articles
State bar let discipline slide while scrambling to fund $76 million building
The California State Bar improperly shrank its attorney discipline efforts while it spent $76.6 million for a new building [...]
Ethics of a glass of wine while on call
A state medical board failed to provide adequate notice when it altered the basis for disciplinary action against a [...]
Pennsylvania: Murder of wife not “too far in the past” to count against licensee’s application
A Pennsylvania appellate court, in a March 30 ruling, upheld a decision by the state’s podiatry board to deny license [...]
Exam cheating returns to haunt accused licensee in discipline action 30 years later
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2014’s TOP 10 Stories in Professional Licensing
Call it the year of the unexpected. In 2014, shifting trends and surprising court rulings with wide implications for [...]
Guns getting go-ahead for some licensing board investigators
As U.S. gun shops continue to rack up record sales, pharmacies and medical offices are becoming more and more likely to have [...]
$9.95 per discipline search? Free is better, says public interest group
Investigative journalists at the New York-based organization ProPublica announced in January the online publication of two [...]
Reckless driving, DUIs not just “traffic violations” when renewing license
The Court of Appeals of Tennessee, in an October 6 ruling, affirmed a trial court’s decision to place a [...]