http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1929/ U.S. Supreme Court Cases, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>Jay Near published a scandal sheet in Minneapolis, in which he attacked local officials, charging that they were implicated with gangsters. Minnesota officials obtained an injunction to prevent Near from publishing his newspaper under a state law that allowed such action against periodicals. The law provided that any person "engaged in the business" of regularly publishing or circulating an "obscene, lewd, and lascivious" or a "malicious, scandalous and defamatory" newspaper or periodical was guilty of a nuisance, and could be enjoined (stopped) from further committing or maintaining the nuisance.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1929/1929_91/