Legal Opinion
Esquire, Inc. v. Walker
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 22, 1945No. 8899PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Associate Justice.
Esquire is a well known magazine of general circulation. It contains stories, arti cles, literary and dramatic reviews. Its contributors include distinguished authors, clergymen, and professors in our best educational institutions.
The Postmaster General revoked the second-class mailing privileges of this magazine, not on the ground of obscenity but because he thought its dominant purpose was to publish writings and pictures described in his order as being “in that obscure and treacherous borderland zone where the average person hesitates to find them technically…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Haguer v. Committee for Industrial OrganizationSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Near v. Minnesota Ex Rel. OlsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Lovell v. City of GriffinSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Grosjean v. American Press Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1936
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Hannegan v. Esquire, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Wolf Sales Co. v. Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.District Court, D. Colorado · 1952
- United States Ex Rel. Rodriguez v. Weekly Publications, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1946
- Atlanta Corporation v. OlesenDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1954
- Read Magazine, Inc. v. HanneganDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1945
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