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Missouri court was wrong to allow state to license hair braiders as cosmetologists
January 10, 2017 | By CALEB TROTTER
caption id="attachment_44107" align="alignleft" width="300" Tameka Stigers. Courtesy Institute for Justice./caption Ndioba Niang and Tameka Stigers are professional African-style hair braiders in Missouri. When the Missouri Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners told them that they had to stop practicing their trade unless they underwent hun ...
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8th Circuit endorses extreme deference to the government
January 11, 2018 | By CALEB TROTTER
A year ago, I wrote about the occupational licensing case of two African-style hair braiders in Missouri. In that case, even though neither the state-mandated exam or the cosmetology curriculum covers African-style hair braiding, the braiders face the prospect of having their livelihoods taken away unless they spend thousands of dollars and hundred ...