STEPHENS v. DENNIS

Civ. A. No. 67-409.

293 F.Supp. 589 (1968)

Floyd M. STEPHENS et al., Plaintiffs, v. Dan A. DENNIS, Jr., as President of the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy, et al., Defendants and Counterclaimants. v. Carl C. ADAMS et al., Counterclaim Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Alabama, E. D.

August 15, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy Sparks, Anniston, Ala., for plaintiffs.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen. of Alabama, John C. Tyson, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.

Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, Ala., for Cecil G. Brown, Jr. and Samuel L. Harris, cross-claimants and additional defendants.

Jere L. Beasley, Clayton, Ala., for John W. Milldrum, cross-claimant.

William P. Albritton, cross-claimant pro se.

deGraffenried, deGraffenried & deGraffenried, Tuscaloosa, Ala., for Frances S. Taylor cross-claimants.

Potts & Young, Florence, Ala., for 13 cross-claim defendants.

J. Mason Davis, Birmingham, Ala., for Lane Evans.

Ben L. Britnell, Decatur, Ala., for Herbert J. Eaton, J. C. Howell and William C. Montgomery.

McEniry, McEniry & McEniry, Bessemer, Ala., for Hazel B. Ripley, Julia S. Taylor, Sadie M. Drummona, Fannie Lee Wadley and Mildred Walton.

Nabors & Torbert, Gadsden, Ala., for eight cross-claim defendants.

Sam M. Phelps, J. J. Spiro, Tuscaloosa, Ala., for six cross-claim defendants.

Merrill, Merrill, Vardaman & Williams, Anniston, Ala., for Julian E. Sewell, and James E. Young.

McKay & Livingston, Sylacauga, Ala., for eight defendants to cross-claim.

Robert W. Weaver, Talladega, Ala., for Virgil Chappell, defendant to counterclaim.

George R. Reynolds, Birmingham, Ala., for eight defendants to counterclaim.

Sirote, Permutt, Friend & Friedman, by William G. West, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for eight defendants.

Grubb & LeMaistre, Eufaula, Ala., for Nell Pitts and Elsie Scarbrough.

Rowe & Lane, Enterprise, Ala., for Douglas Lee Rollins.

E. H. Graves, Jr., Eufaula, Ala., for Dorothy Benton Carmack and 15 defendants.

Howard & Dunn, Wetumpka, Ala., for Mary R. Venable d/b/a City Drug Store, Eclectic, Ala.

John F. Atkinson, Thomas D. Burlage, James A. Moehling, Witwer, Moran & Burlage, Chicago, Ill., and R. Kent Henslee, Gadsden, Ala., for amicus curiae National Assn. of Boards of Pharmacy and American Assn. of Colleges of Pharmacy.

Arthur B. Hanson, Washington, D. C., James S. Hubbard, Anniston, Ala., R. K. Kennon Jones, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae American Pharmaceutical Assn., Inc., a non-profit corp. of District of Columbia.

Hinson & Hamilton, Montgomery, Ala., for Curtis Wells.

Before GODBOLD, Circuit Judge, and LYNNE and ALLGOOD, District Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is an action by licensed pharmacists in Alabama to enjoin, upon the ground of unconstitutionality under the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, the enforcement and operation of the portion of § 91 of Alabama Act No. 205, 1966 Special Session,2 providing for the issuance of assistant pharmacist certificates to persons possessing at the...

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