MID-ATLANTIC ACCESSORIES TRADE v. STATE OF MD.

Civ. No. H-80-1343.

500 F.Supp. 834 (1980)

MID-ATLANTIC ACCESSORIES TRADE ASSOCIATION; Simplified Systems; Progressive Plastics; and Joint Possession, Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF MARYLAND, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

November 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burt M. Kahn, Fred R. Joseph, Shelly E. Mintz and Baskins & Sears, Hyattsville, Md., for plaintiffs.

Dennis M. Sweeney, Paul F. Strain and Linda H. Lamone, Asst. Attys. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for defendant.


ALEXANDER HARVEY, II, District Judge:

This civil action is another in a long series of constitutional challenges to state and local legislation outlawing the manufacture, distribution and use of drug paraphernalia.1 Within the past several years, many different communities throughout the United States have become concerned that the unrestricted sale of drug paraphernalia glamorizes and promotes the use and abuse of illegal drugs both by...

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