RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina board that regulates land surveyors didn’t violate a drone photography pilot’s constitutional rights when it told him to stop advertising and offering aerial map services because he lacked a state license, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. A state license requires educational and technical experience, which can include examinations and apprenticeships. The North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors began investigating his activities in late 2018. And there’s no evidence that the maps that Jones wants to create would constitute “unpopular or dissenting speech,” according to Wynn. And it does so on the theory that such a law somehow does not regulate ‘speech,’” Gedge wrote in an email.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 21, 2024 11:10 UTC