No. 22-6841

Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2023-02-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights due-process economic-freedom free-enterprise licensing-board market-participants sovereign-immunity
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2023-04-14
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does Massachusetts' grant of blanket sovereign immunity to the medical licensing board violate the Nation's free enterprise structure and the right of the people to economic freedom?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED This Court has ruled that “Federal antitrust law is a central safeguard for the Nation’s free market structures. In this regard it is “as important to the preservation of economic freedom and our free-enterprise system as the Bill of Rights is to the protection of our fundamental personal freedoms.” North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission, 574 U.S. 494 (2015) Economic freedoms cannot do preserved as long as Massachusetts continues to claim that a trade association controlled by active market participants and statutorily independent of executive branch control is an arm of the sovereign. The questions presented are: 1. Does Massachusetts’ grant of blanket sovereign immunity to the medical licensing board knowing that by law it shall not be supervised by the Governor violate the Nation’s free enterprise structure and the right of the people to economic freedom? 2. Does this Court’s ruling on the importance of the preservation of economic freedom extend to and apply within Massachusetts?

Docket Entries

2023-04-17
Petition DENIED.
2023-03-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/14/2023.
2023-03-15
Waiver of right of respondent Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine to respond filed.
2023-02-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 24, 2023)
2022-12-08
Application (22A503) granted by Justice Jackson extending the time to file until February 9, 2023.
2022-12-03
Application (22A503) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 11, 2022 to February 9, 2023, submitted to Justice Jackson.

Attorneys

Bharani Padmanabhan
Bharanidharan Padmanabhan — Petitioner
Bharanidharan Padmanabhan — Petitioner
Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine
Samuel FurgangOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Samuel FurgangOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent