This podcast explores a legal and policy memo arguing that North Carolina’s chiropractic board faces a serious conflict as its president and vice president simultaneously serve as NBCE delegates for a major merger vote. The discussion frames the issue as a structural conflict, not personal corruption, and examines whether the board has statutory authority to participate in a private corporate merger at all. It also highlights ethics law, disclosure obligations, open meetings concerns, possible antitrust exposure, and the risk that a legally invalid vote could jeopardize the merger itself. More broadly, the episode presents North Carolina as evidence of a nationwide pattern of regulatory entanglement.
