Bloom v. Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists

I respectfully dissent. In my opinion the case as stated by the Court is not the one decided by the courts below. The legal question presented for decision is not whether Dr. Bloom complied with the grandfather clause of the Act. Art. 4512c, § 15, V.A.T.S. He did. Our question is not whether the word “may” vested broad discretion in the Board, so long as it acted reasonably and not arbitrarily, to license or not license as it might consider to be in the best interest of the public without regard to statutory standards or published agency rules. There is no contention that it did. The question…