Bharani Padmanabhan v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine
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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?
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?