COMPREHENSIVE ACCT. SERVICE CO. v. MD. STATE BD. OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY

[No. 51, September Term, 1978.]

284 Md. 474 (1979)

397 A.2d 1019

COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNTING SERVICE COMPANY v. THE MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 22, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Mass and Joseph S. Kaufman for appellant.

F. Todd Taylor, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, ORTH and COLE, JJ.


MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari in this case prior to decision by the Court of Special Appeals primarily to consider the constitutionality under the first and fourteenth amendments to the federal constitution of a statute which prohibits a non-certified accountant from holding itself out to the public as an "accountant" or describing the services it performs as "accounting" services.

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