American Civil Liberties Union Of Nevada v. Lomax

471 F.3d 1010 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEVADA; Sharon Brune; Carrie Renee Chamberlain; Katherine Chamberlain; Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana; Danielle Halderman; Jennifer Knight; Marijuana Policy Project; Guitana Lee Matracia; Daniel Wisnosky, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Larry LOMAX, Defendant, and Dean Heller, Defendant-Appellant. No. 04-17033. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted July 26, 2006. Filed December 8, 2006. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Brian Sandoval, Attorney General, and Victoria Thimmesch Oldenburg, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Carson City, NV, for the defendant-appellant. Allen Lichtenstein, ACLU of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiffs-appellees. Matthew D. Brinckerhoff and Sarah Netburn, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, LLP, New York, NY, for the plaintiffs-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada; James C. Mahan, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-04-01035-JCM/LRL. Before: HUG, KLEINFELD, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges. PAEZ, Circuit Judge: 1 The citizens of Nevada reserved to themselves the power to legislate by initiative. NEV. Const. art. 19, § 2(1). By…