IDAHO ASS'N, ETC. v. U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMIN.

Nos. 77-1346, 77-1908, 77-2593 and 77-2594.

582 F.2d 849 (1978)

The IDAHO ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS, INC., a corporation, et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION et al., Appellees. The IDAHO ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS, INC., a corporation, et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION et al., Appellees. The IDAHO ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS, INC., a corporation, et al., Appellants, v. The STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Lexington County, the State Board of Pharmaceutical Examiners, Board of Medical Examiners, Appellees, United States Food and Drug Administration et al., Defendants. The IDAHO ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS, INC., a corporation, et al., Appellants, v. The STATE OF WYOMING, the Wyoming State Board of Pharmacy, the Wyoming State Board of Medical Examiners, and the Department of Health and Social Services, Appellees, United States Food and Drug Administration, United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Joseph A. Califano, in his capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare of the United States of America, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley D. Crow, Boise, Idaho (James H. Toms, Hendersonville, N. C., on brief), for appellants.

Jack C. Tranter, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Md., Baltimore, Md., Corinne G. Russell, Asst. Atty. Gen. of S. C., Columbia, S. C., Kenneth Vines, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Wyo., Cheyenne, Wyo., Isaac T. Avery, III, Associate Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N. C. (Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. of N. C., Raleigh, N. C., on brief), John H. Anderson, Raleigh, N. C. (Carl N. Patterson, Jr., Smith, Anderson, Blount & Mitchell, Raleigh, N. C., P. Eugene Price, Jr., Winston Salem, N. C., Edward Y. Brewer, Clemmons, N. C., Richard L. Goard, Winston Salem, N. C., W. Harley Stepp, Jr., Hendersonville, N. C., William R. Pope, Mooresville, N. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, BUTZNER and HALL, Circuit Judges.


BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

In these four substantially identical cases, practitioners and students of naturopathy, patients desiring naturopathic treatment, and associations promoting naturopathy (collectively referred to as naturopaths) seek broad declaratory and injunctive relief assuring the opportunity to study and practice naturopathy and to be treated according to its methods.1 The defendants are the Food and Drug Administration; the...

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