Heller

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES 

UNION OF NEVADA; SHARON BRUNE;

CARRIE RENEE CHAMBERLAIN;

KATHERINE CHAMBERLAIN;

COMMITTEE TO REGULATE AND

CONTROL MARIJUANA; DANIELLE

HALDERMAN; JENNIFER KNIGHT; No. 04-17033

MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT;

D.C. No. 

GUITANA LEE MATRACIA; DANIEL

WISNOSKY, CV-04-01035-

Plaintiffs-Appellees, JCM/LRL v. OPINION

LARRY LOMAX,

Defendant, and

DEAN HELLER,

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada James C. Mahan, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 26, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed December 8, 2006

Before: Procter Hug, Jr., Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Paez

19287 19290 ACLU OF NEVADA v. HELLER

COUNSEL

Brian Sandoval, Attorney General, and Victoria Thimmesch Oldenburg, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Carson City, Nevada, for the defendant-appellant.

Allen Lichtenstein, ACLU of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Matthew D.…