It was Mr. Doub who scuttled Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield's refusal to allow through the mails on grounds of obscenity postcard reproductions of Francisco Goya's The Naked Maya.
His opposition to appealing the Federal Court decision that upset the Post Office's obscenity ban on Lady Chatterley's Lover was overruled by Attorney General William O.
A Washington Post editorial said it "was the beginning of rationality and the key to making the program genuinely protective instead of senselessly punitive.
"[3] Among his most notable achievements was settlement of confiscated property claims by the 126,000 Japanese-Americans (Nisei) forced into concentration camps during World War II and the return of citizenship to 5000 individuals who had renounced it under what the courts later termed "circumstantial duress.
As attorney for former Rep. Thomas F. Johnson (D-MD) during the congressman's fight against federal corruption charges, he argued before the Supreme Court that a speech on the floor of Congress is protected in the Constitution.