Legal Opinion
Brache v. County of Westchester
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 18, 1981No. 1496, Docket 81-7211PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
In recent years several states and units of local government have enacted legislation to prohibit the sale of items used in connection with marijuana, cocaine, and other controlled substances. Many of the laws have encountered pre-enforcement challenges by merchants who claimed that the laws’ definitions of “drug paraphernalia” were impermissibly vague in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.1 Such challenges present troublesome issues on the merits and difficult threshold issues concerning standing and the appropriateness of equitable relief. *49T…
2Cases cited59 opinions
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Broadrick v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- O'Shea v. LittletonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by25 opinions
- High Ol' Times, Inc. v. BusbeeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
- United States v. Luis Rodolfo Zavala-Serra, United States of America v. Maria Novoa CruzCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- Record Head Corporation v. Michael SachenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1982
- Massachusetts Indemnity & Life Insurance Co. v. Texas State Board of InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1985
- Washington Mercantile Association, a Washington Nonprofit Corporation v. Donald H. WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
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