Esdras Betancourt is director of the Hispanic Ministries department of the Church of God, in Cleveland, Tenn.

Gerald R. Barnes is executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs, whose mission is to assist the Catholic Church in its efforts to serve the large Hispanic population in the United States.

Jeremy Gunn is director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s new Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. The ACLU filed an amicus brief in support of UDV.

Lee Boothby is a civil rights and employment lawyer in Washington, D.C. He was vice president of the International Academy for Freedom of Religion and Belief, which filed an amicus brief in support of UDV.

Anthony Picarello Jr. is associate general secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He filed an amicus brief supporting UDV on behalf of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Nancy Hollander of Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward P.A. in Albuquerque, N.M., was the attorney representing the UDV.

Read an April 19, 2005, article from the First Amendment Center on the UDV tea case.

Read an April 19, 2005, Christian Science Monitor article on the UDV case.

Read a June 23, 2004, Deseret News story about the Utah Supreme Court ruling that non-native Americans can use peyote in religious ceremonies.