Legal Opinion
Iowaska Church of Healing v. Rettig
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 31, 2023No. Civil Action No. 2021-2475Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IOWASKA CHURCH OF HEALING, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 21-02475 (BAH) v. Judge Beryl A. Howell UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Plaintiff Iowaska Church of Healing is a non-profit organization whose members’ sincerely-held religious belief partly involves the consumption of the Sacrament of Ayahuasca (“Ayahuasca”), a tea brewed from South American plants that contains a drug illegal under federal law. Pl.’s SMF ¶¶ 5-6, 14-15, ECF No. 20-1. On January 10, 2019, plaintiff filed Form 1023 with the Internal…
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