Pandemic prompts waivers, wider scopes of practice nationwide Could changes become permanent?
The inability to administer traditional licensing exams, the switch to online learning, telecommuting and telehealth, [...]
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Constitutional challenge of practice act may proceed
Reversing a trial court’s dismissal of a suit challenging the constitutionality of a practice act, the Supreme Court [...]
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, [...]
Optometrist cannot dodge branch office license requirements by affiliating with ophthalmologist, court finds
Optometrists in California who want to open a second office are not exempt from the state’s branch office [...]
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 [...]
Fewer than 1% of otherwise eligible license applicants denied over past convictions, Illinois says
Prior convictions are rarely the cause of a license denial, said the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional [...]
Court upholds licensing of applicant with 21 felony convictions
A real estate office employee who applied for a salesperson license won his appeal of the state Real Estate [...]
U.K.-licensed doctor must meet U.K. professional standards even though alleged misconduct occurred in India
A British oncologist, found to have committed professional misconduct in his treatment of a patient while working as a [...]
Panel not required to prove that applicant intentionally lied about felony conviction
The state real estate board was not required to show that a licensee knew his answer to an application question—in which [...]
Federal court: Use of “engineer” label does not imply licensure status
The Oregon engineering board may not prohibit non-licensees from referring to themselves as “engineers,” a federal [...]