Conant v. Walters

309 F.3d 629 Marcus CONANT, Dr.; Donald Northfelt, Dr.; Debashish Tripathy, Dr.; Neil Flynn, Dr.; Stephen Follansbee, Dr.; Stephen O'Brien, Dr.; Milton Estes, Dr.; Jo Daly; Keith Vines; Judith Cushner; Valerie Corral; Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights; Being Alive: People with HIV/AIDS Action Coalition, Inc.; Howard Maccabee, Dr.; Daniel Kane; Allan Flach, Dr.; Michael Ferrucci, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. John P. WALTERS, * , Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; Asa Hutchinson, ** Administrator, U.S. DEA; John Ashcroft, *** Attorney General of the United States; Tommy G. Thompson, **** Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Defendants-Appellants. No. 00-17222. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted April 8, 2002. Filed October 29, 2002. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Mark B. Stern, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellants. Graham A. Boyd, ACLU Drug Policy Litigation, New Haven, CT, Jonathan Weissglass, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA, Daniel N. Abrahamson, Drug Policy Alliance, Oakland, CA, Ann Brick, ACLU Foundation of Northern California, San…