Cosmetology licensing required ~1600 hours of training centered on chemical-based white hairstyling while not teaching African hair braiding at all (which uses no chemicals), effectively outlawing African hair stylists and forcing them into the black market; litigation led California to replace the 1600-hour requirement with a 16-hour sanitation requirement—the appropriate form of regulation.

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Clint Bolick

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California for African hair breeders replaced at 1600 our requirements with a 16 hour requirement

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Clint Bolick Defends Judicial Activism 10/31/2006EconTalk
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