Lamont v. Postmaster General

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Lamont v. Postmaster General, 381 U.S. 301 (1965), was a landmark First Amendment Supreme Court case, in which the ruling of the Supreme Court struck down § 305(a) of the Postal Service and Federal Employees Salary Act of 1962 - a federal statute requiring the Postmaster General to detain and deliver only upon the addressee's request unsealed foreign mailings of "communist political propaganda." Under the stricken code, a recipient of material deemed "political propaganda" was required to indicate their intent to receive such materials before they were delivered, accepting the material by indicating a desire to do so on a card provided by the Post Office. The card states that, if it not with the addressee's name and consent to receiving the material, it would be returned within 20 days, the Post Office assumed that the addressee does not want that publication or any similar one in the future. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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381 U.S. 301

Lamont v. Postmaster General

Argued: April 26, 1965. --- Decided: May 24, 1965

Leonard B. Boudin, Washington, D.C., for appellant in No. 491.

Archibald Cox, Sol. Gen., for appellee in No. 491 and appellants in No. 848.

Marshall W. Krause, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee in No. 848.

Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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