Yousufzai v. Bureau of Prof'l & Occupational Affairs,
No. 2082 C.D.2001 (Pa. Commw. Ct. March 12, 2002)

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the decision of the Board of Medicine to revoke a physician's medical license based on his conviction of six counts of sexual assault on patients during office visits. The Board had previously stated that "even a single incident of sexual abuse of a patient warrants the stringent sanction" of license revocation. Furthermore, the Board did not commit harmful error or reflect bias when it described the physician as a "sexual predator," which was done only in response to the physician's claim that the Board was discriminating against him because he is a native of Afghanistan. The Board had merely stated that it "consistently imposes severe sanctions on sexual predators, without regard to their age, race, religion, or ethnicity."