UNITED STATES v. TWO OBSCENE BOOKS

No. 25449.

99 F.Supp. 760 (1951)

UNITED STATES v. TWO OBSCENE BOOKS.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

September 17, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chauncey Tramutolo, U. S. Atty., Reynold H. Colvin, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for libelant.

George Olshausen, San Francisco, Cal., for claimant.


GOODMAN, District Judge.

The question presented in this case is whether or not two books authored by one Henry Miller and entitled "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn" should be excluded from the United States pursuant to Section 305 of the Tariff Act of 1930, 19 U.S.C.A. § 1305, which prohibits the importation into the United States, inter alia, of obscene books.

The two books in question were seized in the Port and Collection District of San...

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