Arizona state board gets sued for violating 'engineer's' First Amendment rights

2019-12-13T15:26:00-05:00

Greg Mills, co-owner of Southwest Engineering Concepts is suing the Arizona State Board of Technical Registration after he was fined for calling himself an engineer and working without an engineering license, reports IEEE Spectrum. Mills has three decades of experience as an engineer in the aerospace and tech circles, and has run his own company with his wife for the last 10 years.

“I was aware that I’m not legally allowed to call myself a professional engineer if I’m not,” Mills told IEEE Spectrum. “I’ve been an engineer for many years. To start my business and call myself an engineer, it never occurred to me that it would cause any trouble for anybody.”

This suit echoes a familiar issue we often see in architecture, with licensing boards seeking to police the improper use of professional state-issued titles such as "engineer" or "architect." Same Gegde, a lawyer with the Institute for Justice, who works on cases like these told IEEE Spectrum, "Government licensing boards are ofte...

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2015-02-24T14:56:00-05:00

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Arizona state board gets sued for violating 'engineer's' First Amendment rights

Make Architects founder accuses architects of taking credit for engineers' work