Reetz v. Michigan

Citations

• 188 U.S. 505
• 23 S. Ct. 390
• 47 L. Ed. 563
• 1903 U.S. LEXIS 1293

Syllabus

<p>A State' has power to make reasonable provisions for determining the qualifications of those engaged in the practice of medicine and for punishing those who attempt to engage therein in defiance of such statutory provisions.</p> <p>Act No. 237 of Michigan of 1889 creating a board of registration in medicine is not in conflict with the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.</p> <p>There is no provision in the Federal Constitution forbidding the State from granting to a tribunal, whether cabled a court or a board of registration, the final determination of a legal question. Due process of law is not necessarily judicial process, nor is the right of appeal essential to due process of law.</p> <p>When astatute fixes the time and place of meeting of any board or tribunal no special notice to parties interested is required to constitute due process of law as the statute itself is sufficient notice.</p> <p>A state statute requiring the registration of physicians and prohibiting those who are not so registered from practicing thereafter is not an ex post facto law as to a physician who had once engaged in practice, but who was held not to be qualified and whose registration was refused by the board of registration appointed under the statute, such statute not providing any punishment for his having practiced prior to the enactment thereof.</p>