SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL: …In May the judge found the 1952 state law covering the funeral industry to be obsolete and unconstitutional, but stayed his ruling overturning it to allow the board to recommend needed changes to the state Legislature. Instead, the board stood by the constitutionally discredited law.
The law stifles competition for funeral services in many ways. It precludes an individual licensee’s ownership of more than two funeral homes, requires that funeral homes be named for the owners, requires facilities that aren’t necessarily needed in every funeral home, allows only licensees to sell funeral-related merchandise such as caskets, and goes so far as to prohibit funeral homes from serving food to families…
Last week Judge Jones awarded $1.1 million in legal fees to the plaintiffs, issued a permanent injunction against the law and blasted the board… (more)
