1. Lamont v. Postmaster General, No. 491, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, April 26, 1965, Argued , May 24, 1965, Decided ** Together with No. 848, Fixa, Postmaster, San Francisco, et al. v. Heilberg, on appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
OVERVIEW: A federal statute detaining mail matter found to be Communist political propaganda was unconstitutional because the addressees in order to receive their mails had to request in writing that it be delivered, an abridgement of the First Amendment.
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