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Can governments rely on outdated rationales to justify onerous regulation?

September 16, 2014 | By ETHAN BLEVINS

In 1952, Emmett Ashford became the first African American umpire in organized baseball and Dwight Eisenhower was elected President of the United States. That same year, the Pennsylvania legislature decided that funeral homes needed to be heavily regulated. Under a 1952 regulation, funeral directors must obtain a license and build expensive “ ...