In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957), along with its companion case Alberts v. California, was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which redefined the constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment. The Court,…