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Occupational Licensure: Public Safety, or Something More?
The state's interest in protecting public safety is too often used as justification for regulations that exceed that limited scope.
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Occupational Licensure Boards: On the Defense after SCOTUS Ruling?
Around the country, states have imposed licensure requirements on a large number of professions, effectively requiring workers to seek government permission—and pass through a number of bureaucratic hurdles—in order to practice...
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Utah’s Hairbrained Scheme To Protect Special Interests Needs To Be Upbraided
A recent dust up in Utah courts pitted African hair braiding specialist, Jestina Clayton, against the State of Utah, over a current statute that requires 2000 hours of cosmetology coursework to become a licensed hair braider....