CROCKETT v. REAGAN

Civ. A. No. 81-1034.

558 F.Supp. 893 (1982)

Congressman George W. CROCKETT, et al., Plaintiffs, v. President Ronald W. REAGAN, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

October 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira M. Lowe, Lowe, Bressler & Kaufman, Rev. Robert F. Drinan, Prof. Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C., Frank E. Deale, Michael D. Ratner, Morton Stavis, Margaret L. Ratner, Peter Weiss, Doris Peterson, Robert L. Boehm, Arthur Kinoy, New York City, for George W. Crockett, Jr., Anthony C. Beilenson, Phillip Burton, William Clay, Ronald V. Dellums, Mervyn M. Dymally, Robert W. Edgar, Don Edwards, Walter Fauntroy, Thomas Foglietta, Barney Frank, Robert Garcia, William H. Gray, III, Tom Harkin, Mickey Leland, Michael E. Lowry, Barbara A. Mikulski, George Miller, III, Parren J. Mitchell, Anthony Toby Moffett, James L. Oberstar, Richard L. Ottinger, Frederick W. Richmond, Gus Savage, Patricia Schroeder, James M. Shannon, Louis Stokes, Harold Washington and Theodore S. Weiss, all individually and in their capacity as members of the United States House of Representatives, plaintiffs.

Brooke Hedge, Civ.Div., Justice Dept., Charles C. Ruff, U.S. Atty., Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Daniel J. Popeo, Washington, D.C., for Senators Roger W. Jensen, Jesse Helms, Paul Laxalt, Strom Thurmond, Robert Dole, James McClure, John G. Tower, Steven Symms, S.I. Hayakawa, Jeremiah Denton, Barry Goldwater, Gordon Humphrey, Orrin G. Hatch, Paula Hawkins, Don Nickles and Dan Quayle; Congressmen Richard Cheney, George Hansen, Eldon Rudd, Bob Livingston, Philip Crane, Larry McDonald, Daniel Crane, Jim Jeffries, John Rousselot, Bob Stump, Daniel Lungren and Jack Fields, amici curiae.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.

This case was brought by 29 Members of Congress against Ronald Reagan, individually and in his capacity as President of the United States, Caspar W. Weinberger, individually and in his capacity as Secretary of Defense, and Alexander M. Haig, Jr., individually and in his capacity as Secretary of State.* Plaintiffs have alleged that defendants have supplied military...

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