State orders engineer not to talk about – engineering! | Eastern NC Now

"A retired engineer living in North Carolina has been threatened with criminal charges for talking about – engineering.

And the Institute for Justice has taken up his claim to have First Amendment rights to participate in such discussions by filing a lawsuit on his behalf.

At issue is that although Wayne Nutt graduated with an engineering degree and worked in the field his entire 40-year career, he worked for a corporation and under the "industrial exception" was not required to hold his own engineering license.

The dispute arose when he offered comment on a piping system that reportedly flooded a couple of homes.

The North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors rejected his comments, not saying his comments were wrong but that they were illegal."

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