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Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court under which prior restraint on publication was found to violate freedom of the press as protected under the First Amendment.
Many of the newspapers founded in the area that is now the state of Minnesota became Defunct newspapers of Minnesota when they ceased to be published for a variety of reasons. The earliest known newspaper, The Minnesota Weekly Democrat, was founded while the area was part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. According to records of the Library of ...
Newspapers once printed or published in the U.S. state of Minnesota which have ceased publication. Pages in category "Defunct newspapers published in Minnesota" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Newspapers could still be punished through libel laws, if they published material found to be untrue. The "Gag Law" was unique in the United States at that time, and even in Minnesota had only been used on two occasions. Indeed, the Court commented on the unusual nature of the proceeding in its decision.
Minnesota recognized freedom of the press by roundly rejecting prior restraints on publication, a principle that applied to free speech generally in subsequent jurisprudence. The court ruled that a Minnesota law targeting publishers of malicious or scandalous newspapers violated the First Amendment (as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment).
Feb. 5—Crystal Miller, publisher of the Albert Lea Tribune and the Austin Daily Herald, was elected president of the Minnesota Newspaper Association on Friday, Feb. 2, during the association's ...
A movement to ban book bans is gaining steam in Minnesota and several other states, in contrast to the trend playing out in more conservative states where book challenges have soared to their ...
The Saturday Press was the name of a newspaper, established in 1927 by Jay M. Near and Howard A. Guilford, and published in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [1] The newspaper was run by Jay Near, who was an allegedly anti-Semitic, anti-labor and anti-Communist small-time editor. [2]