ACCOUNTANT'S SOC. OF VIRGINIA v. BOWMAN

No. 88-2050.

860 F.2d 602 (1988)

ACCOUNTANT'S SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA; Robert Grille; Samuel A. Braunstein; Lewis A. Marsh; Charles R. Ward, Sr.; Ralph Louis Mirman, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Earl J. BOWMAN; John R. Fisher, III; Raymond L. Slaughter, Sr.; Archie Glaspy, Jr.; G. Bernard Smith; Marvin W. Wingfield, Ph.D.; Joan D. Aaron; David R. Hathcock, Defendants-Appellees, Virginia State Board of Accountancy; C. Hunter Jones; John W. Kerr; John B. Sperry; Gerald G. Thompson, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald J. Thain (University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wis., Steven W. Pearson, David B. Irvin, Hazel, Thomas, Fiske, Beckhorn & Hanes, P.C., Richmond, Va., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Patrice Taylor Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge:

Accountant's Society of Virginia, Inc., and several accountants appeal from a decision of the district court denying declaratory and injunctive relief, and holding that certain provisions of the Code of Virginia regulating the accounting profession are constitutional. Accountant's Society of Virginia, Inc. v. Bowman, No. 84-0376-R (E.D.Va. Feb. 1, 1988). We affirm.

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