The Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience, and Interior Design (AELSLAGID) which is basically a licensing board for Engineers, issued a $1500 fine towards one of its members for identifying himself as an engineer in speeches and articles during a period of time he temporarily failed to renew said license.
How it started:
So it starts with a triggered out of state engineer issuing a complaint in bad faith. But what excuse does Mr. Charles Marohn have for this oversight?
Seems reasonable... but it wasn't and the board issued him a $1500 dollar fine and told him he would have to sign a legal document stated he willfully misrepresented himself as a licensed engineer. Shockingly, he declined and thus it went to a (virtual) hearing in March which led to what apparently is quite obvious, the issue is with Marohn's politics, not his licensing.
Marohn offered to pay a $500 fine and a "stipulated" order that he had identified himself as an engineer while his license had lapsed but would not admit to being "untruthful" or making "false" statements. However the AELSLAGID refused his settlement so now Marohn brought a lawsuit against them in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota with a legal team from the
Institute of Justice.
The head of an urban policy nonprofit is suing Minnesota's engineering licensing board after they threatened him with fines and…
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