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Incidents: prior restraint, state or province level
Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.
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ContinentNorth America
TacticPrior restraint 1
StageSilence 1
OutcomeReversed 1
LevelState or province 1
Head of governmentTheodore Christianson
United States Supreme Court strikes down a Minnesota law used to shut a newspaper
A Hennepin County attorney used Minnesota's 1925 Public Nuisance Law to shut down The Saturday Press, a Minneapolis paper accusing officials of corruption. In 1931 the Supreme Court of the United States struck the law down, ruling that sto…
Prior restraint · Stage Silence · Head of government Theodore Christianson · Reversed
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