Legal Opinion
Friedman v. Rogers
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 16, 1979No. 77-1163PublishedCited by 411 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
Texas law prohibits the practice of optometry under a trade name. It also requires that four of the six members of the State’s regulatory board, the Texas Optometry Board, be members of the Texas Optometric Association, a professional organization of optometrists. A three-judge District Court sustained the constitutionality of the statute governing the composition of the Texas Optometry Board against a challenge based on the First and Fourteenth Amendments. But it held that the prohibition of the practice of optometry under a trade name ran afoul of First Amendment protection of commercial…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Weinberger v. SalfiSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1976
- City of New Orleans v. DukesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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