Legal Opinion
Enterprise, Inc. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 24, 1987No. 86-3919PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RALPH B. GUY, Jr., Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents the question of whether the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) “paid-subscriber rule,” compliance with which allows a publisher to qualify for more favorable second-class mailing rates, violates the first and fifth amendments to the Constitution. Because we agree with the conclusion of the Postal Service’s Board of Governors that it does not, its decision will be affirmed.
I. Procedural History
Initially, the petitioner, The Enterprise, Inc. (Enterprise), publisher of a free publication mailed without request to over 18,-000 homes in…
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