Lucas v. Maine Commission of Pharmacy

How courts have described this case

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• holding that licensing board evaluating reciprocity application properly considered “educational requirements as one critical measure to compare the competency required for original pharmacist registration” as between the two states
• holding that licensing board evaluating reciprocity application properly considered “educational requirements as one critical measure to compare the competency required for original pharmacist registration” as between the two states
• applying the principle that, “ ‘statutes whose operation depends upon private action which is taken for purposes which are independent of the statute’ usually pass constitutional muster”
• finding legislature did not have expertise to develop standards for evaluating medical professionals, and approving adoption of standards created by private entity which utilized eminent professionals interested in maintaining high scientific standards
• ‘“[Statutes whose operation depends upon private action which is taken for purposes which are independent of the statute’ usually pass constitutional muster.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).