Rowan v. United States Post Office Department
1970 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rowan v. Post Office Dept., 397 U.S. 728 (1970), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that an addressee of postal mail has sole, complete, unfettered and unreviewable discretion to decide whether he or she wishes to receive further material from a particular sender, and that the sender does not have a constitutional right to send unwanted material into someone's home. It thus created a quasi-exception to free speech in cases in which a person is held as a "captive audience".[1]
Quick Facts Rowan v. U. S. Post Office Dept., Argued January 22, 1970 Decided May 4, 1970 ...
Rowan v. U. S. Post Office Dept. | |
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Argued January 22, 1970 Decided May 4, 1970 | |
Full case name | Daniel Rowan, dba American Book Service, et al., Appellants, v. United States Post Office Department, et al. |
Citations | 397 U.S. 728 (more) 90 S. Ct. 1484; 25 L. Ed. 2d 736; 1970 U.S. LEXIS 44 |
Case history | |
Prior | 300 F. Supp. 1036 (C.D. Cal. 1969); probable jurisdiction noted, 396 U.S. 885 (1969). |
Holding | |
The addressee of postal mail has unreviewable discretion to decide whether to receive further material from a particular sender, and a vendor does not have a constitutional right to send unwanted material to an unreceptive addressee. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Burger, joined by unanimous |
Concurrence | Brennan, joined by Douglas |
Laws applied | |
39 U.S.C. § 4009 |
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