Comments on: First Amendment might not let Mississippi licensing board go after online map service

By: SPO

SPO — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:07:45 +0000

My only question there—did Oregon’s Professional Engineering Society “lose”? I think not. It sent a message–one that won’t soon be forgotten.

By: Bruce Hyman

Bruce Hyman — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:11:25 +0000

Oregon’s Professional Engineering society lost a suit against a man with a graduate engineering degree who identified as such. he did *not* claim to be a licensed PE and the matter in question had nothing to do with the responsibilities of a PE.

By: SPO

SPO — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 13:41:06 +0000

This is an easy case and a hard case. First, the hard–clearly. the State has the right to regulate “surveying”—but what is surveying? (Just like what is golf–for people who have read Scalia’s classic dissent.)

But that question doesn’t need to be answered. The easy question is whether people have a right to take publicly available legal descriptions and superimpose them on a map for a fee. And the answer is yes they do.