Last week, Benjamin Lawsky, the superintendent of the DFS threatened to revoke a banking license that would prevent Standard Chartered from doing business in New York.

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It will affect the de facto "license" of a business to operate--a license that customers won't hesitate to revoke.

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He also announced that the California labor commissioner was initiating proceedings to revoke Merced Farm Labor's license as a farmworker contractor.

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Texas authorities are seeking to revoke Andrew Campbell's medical license, alleging a pattern of misdiagnosing patients with occupational or mold-related illnesses, overbilling and excessive testing.

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