It's entirely possible for people to commit a crime in North Carolina without even realizing it
Published: Friday, August 11th, 2017 @ 10:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 7:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is one of the more aggressive states in the nation in licensing occupations. This is a significant impediment to freedom in a state that once boasted, and ought to be able to again, of being "First in Freedom."
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2015 @ 1:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is one of the more aggressive states in the nation in licensing occupations. This is a significant impediment to freedom in a state that once boasted, and ought to be able to again, of being "First in Freedom."
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 5:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 @ 6:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals June 27 reversed a trial judge's decision to dismiss Charlotte-area "paleo diet" blogger Steve Cooksey's free speech case.
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2013 @ 1:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Louisiana monks who faced time in the slammer for selling handmade wooden caskets to support themselves have won a victory in federal court against the protectionist Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors.
Published: Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 @ 4:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most people think of occupations requiring licenses as those like medicine and law. North Carolina, however, has made it state's business to certify auctioneers, barbers, librarians, manicurists, and over a hundred others.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 2:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Paleo-diet blogger Steve Cooksey is not the only one who's been censored by the North Carolina Board of Nutrition/Dietetics.
Published: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 @ 7:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"The overthrow of the medieval guild system," wrote Milton Friedman in his seminal work Capitalism and Freedom, "was an indispensable early step in the rise of freedom in the Western world.
Published: Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal judge has thrown out Paleo-diet blogger Steve Cooksey's lawsuit against the North Carolina state agency he claims censored his blog and violated his freedom of speech.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 1:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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New York Times readers learned in early August of Steve Cooksey, the Charlotte-area "diabetes warrior," who has sued the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition because it has tried to censor Cooksey's blog touting the health benefits of the low-carb, high-protein "paleo" diet.
Published: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 @ 3:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal judge said a Charlotte-area man advocating a Paleolithic or "caveman" diet on his blog is "unlikely to succeed" in his claim that the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition has violated his freedom of speech.
Published: Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 @ 4:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In North Carolina, it is illegal to give one-on-one dietary advice without a license. The libertarian public interest law firm Institute for Justice yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging that law.
Published: Thursday, May 31st, 2012 @ 11:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition has closed an investigation of a blogger it had accused of "practicing nutrition" without a license. The April 9 decision came five days after Carolina Journal inquired about the complaint.
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2012 @ 4:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle.
Published: Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 @ 4:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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But both North Carolinians found that they had run afoul of one of the most widespread yet least-discussed barriers to creating jobs and pursing one's dreams: occupational licensing.
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2012 @ 4:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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