Fortune Small Business: “If you want to become a florist in Louisiana, a state law requires you to take a licensing exam. Your flowers are evaluated by licensed florists on subjective criteria such as whether they are ’spaced effectively’ and have the ‘proper focal point.’ More than half of the applicants fail. Do unlicensed florists present a big menace? No, many believe the real explanation is that Louisiana florists want to limit their competition. In Oklahoma a similar law requires that anyone who wants to sell caskets must first obtain a funeral director’s license and embalm 25 bodies. These laws and others like them can seem unfair to entrepreneurs, and in recent years a nonprofit law firm called the Institute for Justice has helped small businesses fight them.”
Venturpreneur by Gordon Smith: Entrepreneurship, Law, Etc. on July 5th, 2004 at 9:08 am
The Institute for Justice
Time to plug a group that has done a lot for entrepreneurship in the United States: the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm. I have met Chip Mellor and Clint Bolick, founders of IJ, and they are…
Flowrs on October 23rd, 2004 at 10:10 pm
Do you think selling online flowers in louisiana is prohibited, I am not understanding this at all? When online flowers like 1800flowers and FTd are able to send across the nation flowers why would a local florists cannot serve his own community, I am sure not all the flowers this big online companies send is verified,at times this world is not a fair place.