Hannegan v. Esquire, Inc.

Congress has made obscene material nonmailable (35 Stat. 1129, 18 U. S. C. § 334), and has applied criminal . sanctions for the enforcement of that policy. It has *148divided mstilable matter into four classes, periodical publications constituting the second-class.1 § 7 of the Classification Act of 1879, 20 Stat. 358, 43 Stat. 1067, 39 U. S. C. § 221. And it has specified four conditions upon which- a publication shall be admitted to the second-class. § 14 of the Classification Act of 1879,20 Stat. 359,48 Stat. 928, 39 U. S. C. § 226. The Fourth condition, which is the only one relevant here,2…