Lehmann v. State Board of Public Accountancy

Citations

• 263 U.S. 394
• 44 S. Ct. 128
• 68 L. Ed. 354
• 1923 U.S. LEXIS 2755

Syllabus

<p>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, canceled, held, not'violatiye of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment or the provision of the Constitution against ex post jacto 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.</p>