May-June 2011
May-June 2011
- Molestation conviction no basis for professional license suspension, court finds
- Covert camera worn by patient proved unlicensed practice charges
- Court upholds liposuction doctor suspension for attempt to influence board
- Despite serious procedure error, board members immune from suit
- Discipline of doctor using unproven weight-loss procedure upheld
- Court rejects part of suit against board for publicizing discipline order
- ‘Overly rigid’ denial of expert testimony dooms board discipline
- Sanctions, injunction awarded against litigious doctor, counsel
- Threat of violence, not just harassment, needed for revocation
- Paraphrasing deposition against licensee is not knowingly falsifying it, court says
- Sanctions ‘unduly harsh’ for licensee guilty of DUI misdemeanors
- Board doesn’t need explicit authority to discipline unethical licensee
- Revocation of license overturned for lack of evidence
- Racial discrimination claim raised too late in revocation case
- Hiring unlicensed individual to act as bounty hunter sufficient to revoke license
- Licensees sue over law making abortion notification a discipline issue
- Suit questioning board’s right to issue opinion may continue
- Court rejects ‘ancient practice’ argument in hair-removal case
- District court dismisses board challenge to FTC actionwithin one working day.