Legal Opinion
Attorney General v. Book Named "Tropic of Cancer."
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 17, 1962PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
The Attorney General proceeds under G. L. e. 272, §§ 28C-28G (inserted by St. 1945, c. 278, § 1 1 ), against a book by Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer” (Tropic), published by Grove Press, Inc. (Grove). Answers were filed by Grove, Miller, and other interveners, alleging that c. 272, §§ 28C through 28H, “as applied herein . . . violate rights of the intervenor[s] guaranteed ... by the . . . Constitution of the United States,” under the First Amendment, “as embraced in the Fourteenth Amendment,” and under the Constitution of the Commonwealth, Part I, arts. 10, 12, and 16. The case was heard by…
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