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The State of Minnesota: Defendant – Near v. Minnesota. In passing upon the constitutionality of the statute, the court has regard for substance, and not for form; the statute must be tested by its operation and effect. 264, 275, 277, 96 P. 127, 18 L. R. A.
The liberty of the press has been especially cherished in this country as respects publications censuring public officials and charging official misconduct. Most of the charges were directed against the chief of police; he was charged with gross neglect of duty, illicit relations with gangsters, and with participation in graft. While reckless assaults upon public men, and efforts to bring obloquy upon those whon are endeavoring faithfully to discharge official duties, exert a baleful influence and deserve the severest condemnation in public opinion, it cannot be said that this abuse is greater, and it is believed to be less, than that which characterized the period in which our institutions took shape. 2009. The plaintiff offered in evidence the verified complaint, together with the issues of the publication in question, which were attached to the complaint as exhibits.
, an action in the name of the State", "to perpetually enjoin the person or persons committing, conducting or maintaining any such nuisance, from further committing, conducting or maintaining any such nuisance. There have been too many men in this city and especially those in official life, who HAVE been taking orders and suggestions from JEW GANGSTERS, therefore we HAVE Jew Gangsters, practically ruling Minneapolis. 2 Cooley, Const. Although individuals could sue Near for libelous remarks, the government did not have the power to bar publication of his writings in advance. 1117.
885. The objection has also been made that the principle as to immunity from previous restraint is stated too broadly, if every such restraint is deemed to be prohibited. 1927, §§ 10112, 10113) provides that the publication is justified 'whenever the matter charged as libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justificable ends,' and also 'is excused when honestly made, in belief of its truth, and upon reasonable grounds for such belief, and consists of fair comments upon the conduct of a person in respect of public affairs.'
304, 313, 15 Am. No one would question but that a government might prevent actual obstruction to its recruiting service or the publication of the sailing dates of transports or the number and location of troops.
[Footnote 11], The importance of this immunity has not lessened.
Co., 282 U. S. 251, 282 U. S. 257-258. This is especially true if their sins are exposed and the only question relates to whether it was done with good motive and for justifiable ends. The decision is considered one of the pillars of American press freedom. The defendant Near appealed from this judgment to the Supreme Court of the State, again asserting his right under the Federal Constitution, and the judgment was affirmed upon the authority of the former decision.
may commence and maintain in the District Court of said county, an action in the name of the State of Minnesota . This principle was applied to free speech generally in subsequent jurisprudence. of Wisconsin System v. Southworth, Regan v. Taxation with Representation of Washington, National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley. It will be observed that the qualifying words are used conjunctively. Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart, 427 U.S. 539 (1976), was a landmark Supreme Court of the United States decision in which the Court held unconstitutional prior restraints on media coverage during criminal trials.
The Supreme Court evaluated the case in terms of whether or not Minnesota's Gag Law was constitutional. Any person who, as an individual, or as a member or employee of a firm, or association or organization, or as an officer, director, member or employee of a corporation, shall be engaged in the business of regularly or customarily producing, publishing or circulating, having in possession, selling or giving away. The business and publications unquestionably constitute an abuse of the right of free press. 640, 650, et seq.
191; United States v. Reynolds, 235 U. S. 133, 148, 149, 35 S. Ct. 86, 59 L. Ed. 306, 309, 121 S.W. It is the continued publication of scandalous and defamatory matter that constitutes the business and the declared nuisance. Smith v. Maryland, 18 How. He expressly invoked the protection of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. . The statute denounces the things done as a nuisance on the ground, as stated by the state supreme court, that they threaten morals, peace and good order.
The. And, as above shown, Story defined freedom of the press guaranteed by the First Amendment to mean that 'every man shall be at liberty to publish what is true, with good motives and for justifiable ends.' 1138; Fiske v. Kansas, 274 U. S. 380, 47 S. Ct. 655, 71 L. Ed. Many of the statements are so highly improbable as to compel a finding that they are false.
That is undoubtedly true; the protection even as to previous restraint is not absolutely unlimited. There is nothing new in the fact that charges of reprehensible conduct may create resentment and the disposition to resort to violent means of redress, but this well understood tendency did not alter the determination to protect the press against censorship and restraint upon publication.
Both nuisances are offensive to morals, order and good government. It is neither more nor less than an expansion of the great doctrine recently brought into operation in the law of libel, that every man shall be at liberty to publish what is true, with good motives and for justifiable ends.
For these reasons we hold the statute, so far as it authorized the proceedings in this action under clause (b) of section 1, to be an infringement of the liberty of the press guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Statute, said the state court (174 Minn. 457, 219 N. W. 770, 772, 58 A. L. R. 607), 'is not directed at threatened libel but at an existing business which, generally speaking, involves more than libel.' 283 U. S. 721, 283 U. S. 722. No prior restraint of the content of news by the government is allowed unless it reveals crucial military information, contains obscenity, or may directly incite "acts of violence". Cf. U.S. Civil Service Comm'n v. National Ass'n of Letter Carriers, Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Comm'n of Ohio.
The complaint charges that defendants were engaged in the business of regularly and customarily publishing "malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspapers" known as the Saturday Press, and nine editions dated respectively on each Saturday commencing September 25 and ending November 19, 1927, were made a part of the complaint. The case of Near v. Minnesota begins with a man named J.M. The court's determination was that: A state injunction against distribution of material designated as "obscene" does not violate freedom of speech and press protected by the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. For whatever wrong the appellant has committed or may commit by his publications the State appropriately affords both public and private redress by its libel laws. 2, c. IX, p. 4; De Lolme, Commentaries on the Constitution of England, c. IX, pp. It is fanciful to suggest similarity between the granting or enforcement of the decree authorized by this statute to prevent further publication of malicious, scandalous and defamatory articles and the previous restraint upon the press by licensers as referred to by Blackstone and described in the history of the times to which he alludes. 283 U. S. 704, 283 U.S. 709, 283 U. S. 712, 283 U. S. 722. The ruling laid the basis for future cases that dealt with censorship of media, and Near v. Minnesota continues to be cited as a bedrock case defending freedom of the press. It is aimed at the distribution of scandalous matter as "detrimental to public morals and to the general welfare," tending "to disturb the peace of the community" and "to provoke assaults and the commission of crime." And this Court is required to pass on the validity of the state law on that basis.
Public officers, whose character and, conduct remain open to debate and free discussion in the press, find their remedies for false accusations in actions under libel laws providing for redress and punishment, and not in proceedings to restrain the publication of newspapers and periodicals.