Legal Opinion
González-Droz v. González-Colón
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 16, 2011No. 10-1881PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
For many years, all licensed physicians in Puerto Rico could perform cosmetic surgery.1 The landscape changed in 2005, when the Puerto Rico Board of Medical Examiners (the Board) promulgated a first-in-the-nation regulation that limited the practice of cosmetic medicine to particular classes of medical specialists. In due course, the Board enforced the regulation against a physician who, though generally licensed to practice medicine, did not possess the required specialty board certification.
This litigation arises in consequence of that enforcement effort. The operative…
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