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WA-ADV-MISLEADINGBoundedlegally required
Advertising that is false, fraudulent or misleading
What the source requires
Washington defines unprofessional conduct for a licence holder to include all advertising which is false, fraudulent, or misleading — with no substantiation escape written into the clause.
Why this is hard to satisfy
The clause is short and absolute, and the copy it catches is ordinary superlative marketing that reads as enthusiasm rather than as a claim.
What we do about it
Claims are checked against the wording before publication, and the substantiation is held with the claim rather than recalled later.
In build · phase two
What this tier means
Formal reasoning over a bounded policy. Sound only for what the policy models, so we say “checked against”, never “guaranteed”.