PHOENIX (AP) - A new court ruling upholds a judge’s rejection of an Arizona salon owner’s lawsuit that challenged cosmetology regulators’ decision to stop her from offering pedicures using fish to nibble dead skin off people’s feet.
The state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the state Board of Cosmetology didn’t violate Cindy Vong’s constitutional rights when it said Vong couldn’t provide fish pedicures.
The regulators said the fish were an unsafe tool for skin exfoliation that couldn’t be sanitized in between uses.
Vong had opened a fish spa within her nail salon in Gilbert but was later forced to close that part of her business.
Vong argued the board violated her due-process and equal-protection rights, but the Court of Appeals ruled that the board had rational grounds for its decision.
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