NYC Mayor Defends Decision To Handcuff and Strip Search Woman Selling Mangos on a Subway Platform
Maria Falcon doesn't have a business license. So New York police officers detained her and confiscated all of her merchandise.
Maria Falcon doesn't have a business license. So New York police officers detained her and confiscated all of her merchandise.
Hispanics get slammed the hardest by licensing requirements that regulators can’t justify.
They've been practicing African-style hair braiding for a combined 60 years. Now, these three women are suing for the right to make a living using their skills.
A pastor and a nonprofit challenge occupational licensing rules.
Despite shifting enforcement away from cops, NYC is still ticketing the dickens out of New York's street-food sellers.
You can support pre-K education and affordable child care and worry about climate change while understanding that policymakers need to get out of the way.
The FTC challenged a licensing scheme that it says limited consumer choice and excluded new providers.
The article explains how expanding opportunities for foot voting can enhance political choice, help the poor and disadvantaged, and reduce the dangers of political polarization.
Free speech and occupational licensing collide.
"Government should be very small. It should just regulate the minimum."
Jigisha Modi can't hire her own mother-in-law—who has decades of eyebrow-threading experience—because of Kansas' occupational licensing rules. Now she's suing.
Do we really need the state to step in over an unfortunate tragedy?
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A measure awaiting the governor's signature would make it easier for natural hair braiders in Wisconsin to work.
A terrible movie about a bodyguard trying to regain an occupational certification.
Wayne Nutt worked as an engineer for decades. But because he's not licensed, North Carolina's engineering board says that he can't share his expertise in public.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he stands for freedom. That doesn't apply to business owners.
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Charles Marohn called himself an engineer in speeches and articles while his license was temporarily expired. The First Amendment protects his right to do that.
The calls to implement such a plan are based on incorrect assumptions and a passive media.
The Restoring Board Immunity Act would give states yet another reason to rein in overzealous licensing authorities.
With depressing job reports, why not eliminate more laws that keep people from doing jobs they want to do and people want to pay them to do?
Like all licensing schemes, this one will raise prices for consumers, hurt entrepreneurs, and protect the interests of the big guys in the market.
Technological innovation makes gathering visual land data easier and cheaper—and threatens an industry’s status quo.
All professions deserve the same constitutional protections that speech-heavy industries get.
Senators and state officials are proposing ways to sweep aside nonsensical regulations that place geographic limits on telehealth.
Entrepreneurs discouraged by red tape even before COVID-19 need officials to leave them alone.
"I hope my case can start removing senseless boundaries to teletherapy," said Brokamp, who is suing in federal court on First Amendment grounds.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
"I just do my own thing," said the George Mason University economist and author of The State Against Blacks.
Occupational licensing rules are more often arbitrary bureaucratic hurdles than they are protections for health or safety.
House Bill 1193 loosened or abolished rules governing more than 30 different professions.
In an op ed coauthored with former Colorado state supreme court justice Rebecca Love Kourlis, he outlines some ways to make legal services more affordable for the poor and lower middle class.
Harsh occupational license rules locked them out, except when they were locked up. A new bill just passed to change the rules.
Tennessee's requirement that barbers have at least a high school education is "unconstitutional, unlawful, and unenforceable," ruled the state's Chancery Court.
Officials claim doing business is a revocable “privilege,” but many Americans see it as a right that they’ll exercise with or without licenses and permits.
Licensing laws can be weaponized to chill speech.
The Covid pandemic strengthens the case for abolishing a requirement that should never have been imposed in the first place.
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
Finding a steady job is the best way to keep a person from going back to prison or jail. These changes make a lot of sense.
The Occupational Freedom and Opportunity Act "will save thousands of Floridians both time and money for years to come," says Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.
The Institute for Justice fights for the right to receive paid training as a farrier without a high school diploma or equivalent.
Reducing law enforcement requires more than merely cutting and shifting a budget.
A flawed argument for judicial passivity in cases of government regulation.
Following Georgia's ruling in favor of a lactation consultant, Pennsylvania’s high court reviews another “unreasonable” occupational licensing scheme.
"We have long interpreted the Georgia Constitution as protecting a right to work in one's chosen profession free from unreasonable government interference."
Pandemic patients get better care when medical professionals are free to work where they're needed. The same will undoubtedly be true of regular patients after COVID-19 has left our lives.