![]() ![]() Roth spent nine years in jail on state and federal obscenity convictions. ![]() ![]() The case was a Supreme Court ruling on freedom of sexual expression and whose minority opinion, regarding redeeming social value as a criterion in obscenity prosecutions, became a template for the liberalizing First Amendment decisions in the 1960s. Described as an "all-around schemer", he was the plaintiff in Roth v. Samuel Roth (1893–1974) was an American publisher and writer. Published Lady Chatterley's Lover and Ulysses against U.S. Mshillim (Hebrew name), Norman Lockridge (alias), David Zorn (alias) "Nustscha" (now Nuszcze) near Zboriv, formerly Galicia now Ukraine Sam Roth, right, in his book shop, Greenwich Village (1920) ![]()
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