Garvai

This is an appeal from a judgment denying a writ of mandate. The licenses of appellants to practice chiropractic were ordered suspended by the respondent, the Board of Chiropractic Examiners of the State of California (Board), and appellants sought mandate to require respondent to vacate its order of suspension. The cause was submitted to the superior court on the transcript of the proceedings before the Board.

Appellants were charged in separate accusations with having practiced chiropractic under fictitious and assumed names, as “Basic Diagnostic Office,” in violation of section 10, subd. (a) of the Chiropractic Initiative Act. A separate cause of action charged that appellants offered their services in newspaper advertisements at a discount or at a price less than the average price regularly charged under like conditions by other licensed chiropractors in violation of section 651 of the Business and Professions Code. The matters against the two appellants were consolidated for all purposes and a hearing was held before a hearing officer. The latter filed his proposed decision in which he found the allegations of the accusations to be true in all counts and recommended that…