Accountant's Society Of Virginia v. Bowman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the phrase “public accountant” is misleading if used by people other than “certified public accountants”
• holding that speech restriction on accountants was permissible regulation of a profession because accountants “exercise their professional judgment in making individualized assessments of each client’s financial situation, for which they are compensated by the client”
• noting that \governmental regulation of the professions is constitu- tional if the regulations have a rational connection with the applicant’s fit- ness or capacity to practice the profession\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• relying on Justice White’s reasoning in Lowe to uphold a statute restricting the use of certain terms in the work product of unlicensed accountants
• upholding statute that prohibited unlicensed accountants from using the title “public accountant” because of the danger of “misleading commercial speech”
• relying on Justice White’s reasoning in Lowe to uphold a statute restricting the use of certain terms in the work product of unlicensed accountants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).