Caporale v. State Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board

Leben, J.:

John Caporale is licensed as a masters-level psychologist in Kansas, where he has practiced psychology since 1991. He obtained a doctorate degree in psychology in 2002 from a regionally accredited university in Minnesota, but the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board denied his application for a doctoral-level license because the Minnesota university’s doctoral program didn’t meet the Kansas Board’s academic standards.

After Kansas officials denied him a doctoral-level license, Cap-orale obtained a doctoral-level license in Minnesota, though he continued to practice psychology…