United States Postal Service v. David Notestine

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The United States Postal Service, acting under express statutory authority, resorted to district court to obtain a preliminary injunction permitting it to retain the mail of named persons while it conducted an administrative proceeding to investigate charges that those persons had solicited money through the mail by means of false representation. The district court not only denied the injunction but issued a preliminary injunction forbidding the Service to pursue the administrative proceeding. It further ordered that the charges of false representation be decided…