{"id":16946,"date":"2012-09-16T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16946"},"modified":"2012-09-15T12:32:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T17:32:48","slug":"nebraska-same-penalty-for-manslaughter-and-for-operating-a-business-without-a-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/16\/nebraska-same-penalty-for-manslaughter-and-for-operating-a-business-without-a-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska: same penalty for manslaughter and for operating a business without a license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/forget-the-happy-ending-mr-ed-woman-woul\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraska<\/a> sure is harsh on people who operate unlicensed businesses. Or they&#8217;re really soft on those who commit manslaughter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The libertarian public-interest law firm Institute for Justice reports on one of the most insane, inane, and profane prosecutions in all-time memory.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Hough is a long-time practitioner of &#8220;equine massage,&#8221; which supposedly is beneficial in all sorts of ways to the animals in question.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p><em>A few weeks later, she received a letter from Nebraska\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services ordering her to \u201ccease and desist\u201d from the \u201cunlicensed practice of veterinary medicine.\u201d In Nebraska, continuing to operate a business without a license after getting a cease and desist letter is a Class III felony. So Karen could face up to 20 years in prison and pay a $25,000 fine. By comparison, that\u2019s the same penalty for manslaughter in the Cornhusker State.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nebraska isn&#8217;t a place that shows up in the news very often: I&#8217;ve posted nearly 5,000 entries here at the blog, and this is the first time I&#8217;ve needed to tag anything &#8220;Nebraska&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska sure is harsh on people who operate unlicensed businesses. Or they&#8217;re really soft on those who commit manslaughter: The libertarian public-interest law firm Institute for Justice reports on one of the most insane, inane, and profane prosecutions in all-time memory. Karen Hough is a long-time practitioner of &#8220;equine massage,&#8221; which supposedly is beneficial in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,831,9,13],"tags":[52,847,661],"class_list":["post-16946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-law","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-nebraska","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16948,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16946\/revisions\/16948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}