Semler v. Oregon State Board of Dental Examiners

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• emphasizing the state’s ability to engage in contin- uing oversight of dentists to protect against, among other things, “incapacity”
• upholding state dentistry regulation that “afford[ed] protection against ignorance, incapacity and imposition”
• although state not have to deal with like evils at the same time, distinction must be rationally related to legislative objective
• “That the state may regulate the [professions] ... and to that end may ... establish supervision by an administrative board, is not open to dispute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).