On this day in 1964 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that found Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer to be obscene. This was three years after the book's first publication in America, thirty years since its publication in Europe, and a hundred years since Comstock began to patrol the mails for such "vampire literature." Though but one judgment in a series of significant decisions -- most importantly, those concerning Ulysses, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Fanny Hill -- the Miller ruling is considered landmark for having led the way to the establishment of a new, more liberal standard in censorship ... FULL STORY »
