Actress Cindy Lee Garcia sues over Innocence of Muslims

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31. Protected speech means you cannot be enjoined from expressing it.

You can, however, be punished after you say it. This is what Near vs Minnesota was all about.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
283 U.S. 697
Near v. Minnesota
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF MINNESOTA
No. 91 Argued: January 30, 1931 --- Decided: June 1, 1931
1. A Minnesota statute declares that one who engages "in the business of regularly and customarily producing, publishing," etc., "a malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper, magazine or other periodical," is guilty of a nuisance, and authorizes suits, in the name of the State, in which such periodicals may be abated and their publishers enjoined from future violations. In such a suit, malice may be inferred from the fact of publication. The defendant is permitted to prove, as a defense, that his publications were true and published "with good motives and for justifiable ends." Disobedience of an injunction is punishable as a contempt. Held unconstitutional, as applied to publications charging neglect of duty and corruption upon the part of law-enforcing officers of the State. Pp. 704, 709, 712, 722.

2. Liberty of the press is within the liberty safeguarded by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from invasion by state action. P. 707.

3. Liberty of the press is not an absolute right, and the State may punish its abuse. P. 708.


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