California’s law regulating who can call themselves “Dr.” harms patients

When Sarah Erny was born, her father knew she’d be a doctor someday. Forty years later, Sarah earned a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP)—the highest degree available in advanced nursing—and became known as “Dr. Sarah” to her patients and colleagues.

Brittany Hunter details the chilling turn Sarah’s story took when the government came after her for violating a California prohibition on that endearing (and accurate) title for nurse practitioners like Sarah.

Three Chevron Deference nightmares: What happens when courts defer to federal agencies

If a federal agency does something wrong to you, the courts should set things right. But courts sometimes invoke Chevron Deference instead and defer to the federal agency.

This isn’t an abstract legal problem. Nicole W.C. Yeatman shows us how Chevron has real, harmful effects on lives and liberty.

The Dispatch: The Supreme Court can fix its oldest mistake this year

Ursula Newell-Davis has been locked in a civil rights lawsuit since 2021, fighting a Louisiana regulation preventing her from opening a respite care business for special needs families.

Now she’s asking the Supreme Court to review her case. For her to prevail, write Larry Salzman and Anastasia Boden, the Court will have to revisit its controversial 1873 decision in The Slaughter-House Cases.

USA Today: Protecting the right to earn a living

Imagine an America in which states can’t lawfully restrict individuals’ ability to find work.

That’s what the drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment intended, Anastasia Boden writes in USA Today. The amendment was supposed to transform the government so that states could not abridge fundamental rights, like the right to earn a living.

Now Ursula Newell-Davis’s case seeks to restore every American’s freedom to work.

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