Massachusetts Chiropractic Laymen's Ass'n v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
The objectives of this bill for declaratory relief are to obtain a declaration (1) that chiropractic is not the practice of medicine; (2) that even if it is the practice of medicine, then G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 112, § 6, which forbids the practice of medicine without a license is unconstitutional as applied to chiropractors; (3) that §§ 2 to 8 of G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 112 do not regulate the practice of chiropractic in the Commonwealth; and (4) that even if §§ 2 to 8 of c. 112 be construed as regulating the practice of chiropractic but restricting it to registered physicians, then these sections *180be…
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