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PEYOTE WAY CHURCH OF GOD, INC. v. SMITH

No. CA 3-82-0778-C.

556 F.Supp. 632 (1983)

PEYOTE WAY CHURCH OF GOD, INC. v. William F. SMITH, Attorney General of the United States, and Jim Mattox, Attorney General of the State of Texas.

United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division.

February 7, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Allen and Raymond E. White, American Civil Liberties Union, Dallas Chapter, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff.

John T. Bannon, Jr., (for Wm. F. Smith) General Litigation and Legal Advice Section, Crim. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., James A. Rolfe, U.S. Atty., Paula Mastropieri-Billingsley, Asst. U.S. Atty., Dallas, Tex., for William French Smith.

Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Gilbert J. Pena, Chief, Enforcement Section, Douglas M. Becker, Leslie A. Benitez, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for Jim Mattox.

James G. Abourezk, Atty. Gen. of Navajo Nation, Lawrence A. Aschenbrenner, Deputy Atty. Gen., Elizabeth Bernstein, Staff Atty., Dept. of Justice of the Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Ariz., amicus curiae.

OPINION

WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, Jr., Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff is an Arizona non-profit religious organization with its headquarters in Arizona. It has sued on its own behalf and on behalf of its members to have Tex.Rev. Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 4476-15, § 4.11(a), 4.032, 4.042 & 4.051 (Vernon 1976 & Supp.1982, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 & 844 (1976) and 21 C.F.R. § 1307.31 (1981) declared unconstitutional under, variously, 42 U.S.C. &...

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