Jay Near publishes Saturday Press in Minneapolis accusing the police chief and county attorney of protecting organized crime, triggering Minnesota's newspaper prior restraint law

Jay Near and Howard Guilford began publishing the Saturday Press in Minneapolis in September 1927, with weekly articles alleging that Police Chief Frank Brunskill and County Attorney Floyd B. Olson were knowingly allowing Jewish gangsters to operate gambling, bootlegging, and racketeering operations throughout the city. The November 19, 1927 issue named officials and criminal figures explicitly. Minnesota's Public Nuisance Abatement Law of 1925 — drafted by Olson himself — allowed courts to permanently enjoin any newspaper deemed a 'malicious, scandalous, and defamatory' public nuisance without requiring proof that specific allegations were false.