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Lehmann v. State Board of Public Accountancy, 263 U.S. 394 (1923)
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Lehmann v. State Board of Public Accountancy, 263 U.S. 394 (1923)
Lehmann v. State Board of Public Accountancy No. 170 Motion to dismiss or affirm submitted November 26, 1923 Decided December 10, 1923 263 U.S. 394
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA
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A state statute authorizing a Board to grant certificates of registration to qualified persons as certified public accountants, and empowering it, upon notice and hearing, to cancel any registration so granted for unprofessional conduct of the certificate holder, but leaving the individual free to.practice accountancy without procuring a certificate and after a certificate granted has been cancelled, held not violative of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment or the provision of the Constitution against ex post facto laws in the case of one who, having obtained such a certificate, sought to enjoin the Board from hearing charges looking to its revocation upon the ground that the statute conferred arbitrary power by not defining more specifically the cause for revocation and that the Board had promulgated no definitive rules. P. 397.
208 Ala. 185 affirmed.
Error to a decree of the Supreme Court of Alabama affirming a decree which dismissed a bill to enjoin a state Board and its members from hearing charges preferred against the plaintiff looking to the revocation of his certificate as a public accountant, and to enjoin the other defendants, who had made the charges, from prosecuting them. The section of the Alabama statute governing the proceedings before the Board is set forth below.{1}
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Lehmann v. State Board of Public Accountancy, 263 U.S. 394 (1923) in 263 U.S. 394 263 U.S. 395. Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KDE2U248BS9MN8W.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Lehmann v. State Board of Public Accountancy, 263 U.S. 394 (1923), in 263 U.S. 394, page 263 U.S. 395. Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KDE2U248BS9MN8W.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Lehmann v. State Board of Public Accountancy, 263 U.S. 394 (1923). cited in 1923, 263 U.S. 394, pp.263 U.S. 395. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KDE2U248BS9MN8W.
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