Source
Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931)
Justia US Supreme Court Center, 1931-06-01
- Kind
- court record
- Last checked
- 2026-11-07
Cited by
- Minnesota closes The Saturday Press in 1927; the Supreme Court strikes down the law in 1931
- Claim 120: The Supreme Court held that letting officials bring a newspaper's publisher before a judge on a charge of publishing scandalous material was itself a form of censorship.
- Claim 121: The Court said the central purpose of the free-press guarantee was to stop government from restraining publication in advance, while leaving a publisher open to being sued for libel afterward.
- Claim 122: The Court found the Minnesota statute's real effect was not to punish one defamatory issue but to place the publisher under an ongoing system of censorship.
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