Legal Opinion
Sunshine Publishing Company v. Summerfield
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 20, 1960No. Civ. A. 1125-59PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
YOUNGDAHL, District Judge.
Plaintiff is the publisher of “Sunshine and Health” and “Sun Magazine”, two publications not unknown to the judicial process nor to the defendant. 1 On January 16, 1958, three days after the United States Supreme Court held that the magazines were not obscene (and therefore not prohibited from the mails by 18 U.S.C. § 1461), the plaintiff applied for second-class mail rates. Thereafter, plaintiff and the Post Office Department consumed some fifteen months in correspondence and negotiations until the plaintiff decided it had no choice but to bring this action.
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2Cases cited8 opinions
- Peterson v. HopsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- Hannegan v. Esquire, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Sunshine Book Co. v. SummerfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Sunshine Book Company and Solair Union Naturisme, Inc. v. Arthur E. Summerfield, Individually and as Postmaster General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957
- Sunshine Book Company v. SummerfieldDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1955
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Kritsidimas v. SheskinDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1980
- Gladstone Foundation v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1981
- Prince Corp. v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1976
- Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. United States Consumer Product Safety CommissionDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1976
- Christian Beacon (A Non-Profit Corporation) v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1963
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