Christian Wolff: OBPE (OBOP) Refuses to Post Documents Favorable to Wolff

Despite countless efforts on the part of Christian Wolff, the Oregon Board of Psychology (formerly the Oregon Board of Psychologist Examiners) refuses to publish the fuller story on matters related to Mr. Wolff.

It is not a matter of publishing Wolff’s side of the story. The Oregon Board of Psychology (OBOP) affords no licensee the space for this on their website. All reports on OBOP’s “Licensee Look-up” are written by OBOP itself, an Administrative Law Judge, or the Oregon Court of Appeals. OBOP alone, however, determines which from among such reports, they will publish.

In the case of David Bice v. Board of Psychologist Examiners, Dr. Bice appealed to the Oregon Court of Appeals (OCA) for an award of his attorney fees and was denied. In the board’s Final order on Remand against Dr. Bice, OBOP prominently displayed the fact that Dr. Bice lost his appeal for attorney fees and even took care to cite the sizable amount of attorney fees Bice was denied.

In the Final Order on Remand following Wolff’s Reverse & Remand victory, the board made no mention of the fact that Wolff succeeded in his his petition for award of his attorney fees. Although OBOP has posted the OCA opinion which gave Wolff an OCA recognized “victory” Reverse & Remand of the board’s action against him, the board has refused to publish, along with other relevant documents, the OCA document which testifies to Wolff’s award and why it was awarded.

Furthermore, OBOP has entitled their Final Order on Remand against Wolff, “Final Order by Default.” Although “Final Order by Default” is not untrue, the title is grossly misleading by omission. By failing to place the words “on Remand” in the title of their (latest) Final Order, the standard reader, reading in a standard manner, would not be lead to understand that Wolff had previously defeated the board in appellate court.

Citing Bice again for convenience, we can see that the board properly entitled Bice’s (latest) Final Order, “Final Order on Remand.”

The OCA document which the board has selectively not included among the documents they’ve publish on the matter of Wolff can be found here. It is the award of his attorney fees.

Wolff Wins Attorney Fees Against Psychology Board

The Second Omitted Document

The second document OBOP has refused to publish among their other documents on Wolff regards a spurious claim by the board in 2015 that 19 of Wolff’s 50 submitted continuing education (CE) credits did not meet criteria. Wolff challenged this and a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) was held. Mr. Wolff’s attorney, Bear Wilner-Nugent represented Mr. Wolff at the hearing. The ALJ concluded that both Mr. Wolff and the board had reasonable understandings of the rules and statutes surrounding CE criteria, albeit different interpretations. Given this “draw,” the ALJ defaulted to the board’s interpretation and ordered Mr. Wolff to “retake” 19 CE’s. Inasmuch as Wolff refused to replacement CEs otherwise, the board had proposed to fine Mr. Wolff $200, consider the fine to be a “disciplinary action,” and to reserve the right to call Mr. Wolff, immoral, unprofessional, a danger to the public and so on. The ALJ denied them this stating that Mr. Wolff’s understanding of the rules and statutes were so reasonable that it did not warrant a fine or disciplinary action. This is the second relevant document OBOP refuses to publish about Mr. Wolff. The omission gives any reader the idea that no such document exists and that no such event ever occurred. This document which begins with the sentence

On November 24. 2014, the Board ofPsychologist Examiners (Board) issued a Notice of Proposed Civil Penalty (Notice) to Christian Wolff, proposing to assess a $200 civil penalty and require his completion of 19 hours ofqualifying continuing education (CE) activities.

can be found here:

OBPE OBOP Christian Wolff CE Matter Final Order Oregon Board of Psychology Psychologist Examiners