Barsky v. Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York

The principal question here presented is whether the New York State Education Law,1 on its face or as here construed and applied, violates the Constitution of the United States by authorizing the suspension from practice, for six months, of a physician because he has been convicted, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, of failing to produce, before a Committee of the United States House of Representatives, certain papers subpoenaed by that Committee.2 For the reasons hereafter stated, we hold that it does not.

*444In 1945, the Committee of the United States House of…