Due process required hearing when licensee’s passport confiscated
The California medical board must consider the impossibility defense of a doctor who was subject to an order from a [...]
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Only physicians should conduct autopsies, board votes
The California state medical board has voted unanimously to support a new state senate bill that allows only licensed [...]
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 [...]
California opens licensing doors to undocumented workers
A new California law allows undocumented workers to apply for licensure using a federal ID in place of a Social Security [...]
California: Racial discrimination suit against board employee may continue
A federal district court in California, in a March 16 decision, refused to dismiss a suit by a physician who sued the [...]
Exam cheating returns to haunt accused licensee in discipline action 30 years later
A dentist who was caught having a friend take the California dental licensing exam in his place in 1982—but who obtained a [...]
California audit slams $92 million ill-functioning licensing data system
With 1.2 million license renewals and 300,000 applicants to process every year, California's Department of Consumer Affairs [...]
Voters reject random drug testing for California doctors
Worker drug testing has become common practice among U.S. employers. But rarely does it apply to licensed professionals. If [...]
Revocation upheld for scheme to dodge state Medicaid exclusion
California's Fourth District Court of Appeal, in a September 12 ruling, affirmed the State Board of Pharmacy's decision to [...]
Forged document scheme uncovered by California regulators
In December, the California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians filed charges against 8 individuals, all [...]