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BACK DOOR RECORDS v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE

No. LR C 80 314.

515 F.Supp. 857 (1981)

BACK DOOR RECORDS, a Proprietorship of Edwin Matthews; Sandra E. Gabrion and Keller Matthews, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE; James G. Reid, Mayor of the City of Jacksonville; Emma Knight; Lee Lawson; Ron Brooks; Steve Hughes; Larry Wilson; Martha Boyd; Gary Fletcher; Mike Abdin; Phil Keaton; Joe Williamson, Individually and as Members of the Jacksonville City Council; John Shephard, Chief of Police for the City of Jacksonville; Paul D. Groce, City Attorney for the City of Jacksonville, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

January 8, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Wayne Davis, Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiffs.

Paul D. Groce, Jacksonville, Ark., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM ORDER

OVERTON, District Judge.

The case at bar challenges the constitutional validity of an effort by the City of Jacksonville and the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration to deal with the serious problem of drug abuse by prohibiting the sale of items which are commonly associated with the use of illegal drugs. The DEA is mentioned in this connection because the Jacksonville ordinance is an almost verbatim copy of the Model Drug Paraphernalia...

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