Legal Opinion
Haygood v. Louisiana State Board of Dentistry
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided September 26, 2012No. Nos. 2011-CA-1327, 2012-CA-0214, 2012-CA-0215PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERRI F. LOVE, Judge.
|,Dr. C. Ryan Haygood appeals the decision of the Louisiana State Board of Dentistry to permanently revoke his dentistry license. Dr. Haygood maintains that the Board’s decision cannot be upheld because the Board’s independent counsel, who is also its general counsel, participated in the administrative hearing in dual roles as prosecutor and adjudicator.
After conducting a de novo review, we find the combination of the Board’s general counsel’s roles of prosecutor and adjudicator violated Dr. Haygood’s due process rights. We find the Board improperly combined the…
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