One, Incorporated v. Otto K. Olesen, et al.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

DigitalArchivalResource

One, Incorporated v. Otto K. Olesen, et al.

1955-1958

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/25594820

This case was filed by One, Incorporated for an injunction and declaratory relief from Otto K. Olesen, postmaster for the City of Los Angeles. Six hundred copies of the October 1954 issue of One magazine was seized by the U.S. Postal Service on the grounds that the issue was "obscene, lewd, lascivious and filthy". The plaintiff argued that Olesen had seized the issues in violation to Constitutional rights and privileges. The One denoted itself as a magazine "dealing primarily with homosexuality from the scientific, historical and critical point of view." Included in this file is a copy of the October 1954 magazine, an affidavit of Nelle C. Wood, Superintendent of the Classification Section at the Los Angeles Post Office; an affidavit of William Lambert, business manager of One, Incorporated and an affidavit of Eric Julber, attorney for the One, Incorporated; and documents and correspondence relating to the appeals cases to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (case number 15139) and the U.S. Supreme Court (case number 290 for the October Term, 1957).

eng, Latn

National Archives at Riverside

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11665772

National Archives at Riverside

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

One, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z66z0f (corporateBody)

ONE Inc. was founded in the last months of 1952, employed W. Dorr Legg as business manager in June 1953, and was officially incorporated by October 1953. The articles of incorporation declared that ONE Inc.'s primary goal was "to publish and disseminate a magazine dealing primarily with homosexuality from a scientific, historical and critical point of view, and to aid in the social integration and rehabilitation of the sexual variant." The publication of ONE Magazine, first release...