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Near v. Minnesota 283 U.S. 697 (1931) was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision that recognized the freedom of the press by roundly rejecting prior restraints on publication a principle that was applied to free speech generally in subsequent jurisprudence. The Court ruled that a Minnesota law that targeted publishers of malicious or scandalous newspapers violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment).