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MURRAY v. MORTON

Civ. A. No. 80-1475.

505 F.Supp. 144 (1981)

Jon Garth MURRAY et al., Plaintiffs, v. Azie Taylor MORTON et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

January 12, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel D. Joseph, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., Royce C. Lamberth, R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., for the United States, Congress, The Senate, The Senate defendants, and The Executive Department.

Stanley M. Brand, Gen. Counsel to the Clerk, Steven R. Ross, Asst. Counsel to the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., for Honorable Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Speaker, and The Honorable James D. Ford, Chaplain, United States House of Representatives.

Daniel J. Popeo, Gen. Counsel, Paul D. Kamenar, Director of Litigation, Jeffrey Hiller, Staff Atty., Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D. C., for intervening defendants Senator Jesse Helms, et al.

MEMORANDUM

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

I.

Plaintiffs are two federal taxpayers and an organization, the Society of Separationists, most of whose members are taxpayers. None of the plaintiffs believes in any Supreme Being nor practices any religion. They sue the United States Congress, the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, together with several officers of each House including individual Senators, individual Congressmen...

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