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Washington, DC, April 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed an amicus brief today in TWISM Enterprises, LLC v. State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyorsurging the Supreme Court of Ohio to declare agency deference unconstitutional. NCLA argues that the Hamilton County Court of Appeals erred by deferring to the Ohio Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors’ “reasonable interpretation” of what the court characterized as “ambiguous statutes and administrative rules.” Agency deference violates the Ohio and federal constitutions by requiring judges to abandon their duty of independent judgment.
TWISM Enterprises, LLC, a small, Cincinnati-based engineering firm, applied for a Certificate of Authorization (COA) to provide professional engineering services to the public, which was denied by the Board on February 28, 2019. According to the Board, TWISM’s application was denied solely because TWISM “did not designate one or more full-time partners, managers, members, officers, or directors as being responsible for and in responsible charge of the professional engineering … activities and decisions, and those designated persons shall be registered in this state,” as required by state law. The Board …
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