Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners v. Mooring

REDMANN, Judge.

Defendant, Chiropractor Frank Mooring, and intervenors, some 80 of his patients, appeal from a preliminary injunction restraining Mooring from practicing medicine until he has complied with the provisions of the Louisiana Medical Practice Act, LSA-R.S. 37:1261 et seq.

It appears uncontroverted that defendant is engaged in the practice of chiropractic, defined by its proponents as a system of adjusting or subluxating displaced vertebrae of the spinal column by hand for the restoration of health, Louisiana St. Bd. of Med. Exam’rs v. Cronk, 157 La. 318, 102 So. 415 (1924).

Plaintiff’…