POLISCI 361 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Prior Restraint, Reform School, Incorporation Of The Bill Of Rights

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLISCI 361
• Professor: Sheldon Goldman

Document Summary

In a minneapolis newspaper near accused local officials of being involved with gangsters. Minnesota officials looked for a judicial order against the newspaper on the grounds that it violated the public nuisance law because it was malicious, scandalous, and defamatory. Law stated that any person that was 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. Does the minnesota gag law violated the free press provision of the first amendment. In some situations, such as when speech is obscene, incites violence, or reveals military secrets, the government might be able to justify a prior restraint. West virginia state board of education v barnette 1943. West virginia boe made it mandatory that all public school teachers and students saluted the flag every day. Children that were jehovah"s witnesses refused to salute the flag because it went against their religious beliefs.