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# The Antitrust Case Against Occupational Licensing Boards 

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February 27, 2025 1 - 1:55 PM EST 

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Joshua Polk 

Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation

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Occupational licensing boards today act like protectors of cartels, often going beyond merely issuing licenses to launching witch hunts and boxing out their competitors. February 2025 marks the 10-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision in *North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC*. In that case, that state’s dental licensing board was ruled to be acting like a monopolist (using the power given to it by the state government) by trying to drive non-dentist teeth whiteners out of business. This policy forum will discuss the policy landscape that resulted from that decision and what it should mean for liberty-minded policymakers and litigators in the future.

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