The Commonwealth Court dealt a blow to a suit challenging Pennsylvania’s licensing requirements for commercial practitioners of natural hair braiding. 

In a Thursday ruling, a three-judge panel consisting of Judges Mary Leavitt, Anne Covey and Christine Fizzano Cannon sustained most of the preliminary objections raised by the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs and the State Board of Cosmetology. Only one of the petitioners’ claims survived the ruling: that the requirement specifically violates the substantive due process rights of two of the petitioners.

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