Carmichael v. Riley

Richard Carmichael filed an action against the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners ("the Board"), claiming that the Board's actions had denied his right to due process of law. The complaint was later amended to add or substitute other defendants. Carmichael alleges that he was denied a physician's assistant's license because the Board held a meeting without giving him notice and decided at that meeting not to grant him a license. The trial court held that Carmichael had no statutory right to be present at the meeting on October 16, 1984, and therefore, that there was no denial of due…