Tourlanes Publishing Co. v. Summerfield

The factual situation here presented is generally similar to that in Summerfield v. Sunshine Book Co., 1954, 95 U.S.App. D.C. 169, 221 F.2d 42, certiorari denied 1955, 349 U.S. 921, 75 S.Ct. 661, 99 L.Ed. 1253. The publications issued by Tour-lanes Publishing Co. include a tax guide and other innocuous matter, in addition to certain pamphlets or magazines which the Post Office Department found to be obscene. An order was issued by that Department, under 39 U.S.C.A. § 259a, directing the local postmaster to refuse to deliver mail to Tourlanes. Tourlanes applied to the District Court for…