 In 1933, the publisher Random House and lawyer Morris Ernst arranged to import the French edition and have a copy seized by Customs.The publisher contested the seizure, and in "United States v. One Book Called Ulysses", U.S. District Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that the book was not pornographic and therefore could not be obscene, a decision that was called "epoch-making" by Stuart Gilbert.The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the ruling in 1934.