In 1963, Putnam published the book in the United States under the title "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure". This edition led to the arrest of New York City bookstore owner Irwin Weisfeld and clerk John Downs as part of an anti-obscenity campaign orchestrated by several major political figures. Weisfeld's conviction was eventually overturned in state court and New York ban of Fanny Hill lifted. The new edition was also banned for obscenity in Massachusetts, after a mother complained to the state's Obscene Literature Control Commission. Massachusetts high court did rule Fanny Hill obscene and the publisher's challenge to the ban now went up to the Supreme Court. In a landmark decision in 1966, the United States Supreme Court ruled in "Memoirs v. Massachusetts" that "Fanny Hill" did not meet the Roth standard for obscenity.