Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p One, Inc. v. Olesen 355 U.S. 371 (January 13, 1958) is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision for LGBT rights in the United States. ONE, Inc., a spinoff of the Mattachine Society, published the early pro-gay "ONE: The Homosexual Magazine" beginning in 1953. After a campaign of harassment from the U.S. Post Office Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Postmaster of Los Angeles declared the October, 1954 issue obscene therefore unmailable under the Comstock laws.The magazine sued. The first court decision (March 1956) sided with the post office, as did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (February 1957). To the surprise of all concerned, an appeal to the Supreme Court was not only accepted, but citing its recent landmark decision in Roth v. United States 354 U.S. 476 (1957) the Court, in a terse per curiam decision, reversed the 9th Circuit without even waiting for oral arguments. The decision read in its entirety:"241 F.2d 772, reversed.Eric Julber for petitioner.Solicitor General Rankin, Acting Assistant Attorney General Leonard and Samuel D. Slade for respondent.PER CURIAM.The petition for writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is reversed. Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476. [355 U.S. 371, 372]"This marked the first time the Supreme Court had explicitly ruled on free press rights around homosexuality. The justices supporting reversal were Frankfurter, Douglas, Clark, Harlan, and Whittaker.. }
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- One,_Inc._v._Olesen abstract "One, Inc. v. Olesen 355 U.S. 371 (January 13, 1958) is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision for LGBT rights in the United States. ONE, Inc., a spinoff of the Mattachine Society, published the early pro-gay "ONE: The Homosexual Magazine" beginning in 1953. After a campaign of harassment from the U.S. Post Office Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Postmaster of Los Angeles declared the October, 1954 issue obscene therefore unmailable under the Comstock laws.The magazine sued. The first court decision (March 1956) sided with the post office, as did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (February 1957). To the surprise of all concerned, an appeal to the Supreme Court was not only accepted, but citing its recent landmark decision in Roth v. United States 354 U.S. 476 (1957) the Court, in a terse per curiam decision, reversed the 9th Circuit without even waiting for oral arguments. The decision read in its entirety:"241 F.2d 772, reversed.Eric Julber for petitioner.Solicitor General Rankin, Acting Assistant Attorney General Leonard and Samuel D. Slade for respondent.PER CURIAM.The petition for writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is reversed. Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476. [355 U.S. 371, 372]"This marked the first time the Supreme Court had explicitly ruled on free press rights around homosexuality. The justices supporting reversal were Frankfurter, Douglas, Clark, Harlan, and Whittaker.".