Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Word of the Week #4

o abatement:

o Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931)

o Chapter 285 of the Session Laws of Minnesota for the year 1925 provides for the abatement, as a public nuisance, of a “malicious, scandalous, and defamatory newspaper, magazine, or other periodical.”

o definition: abatement: (noun) (often in legal use): the ending, reduction, or lessening of something

o The administration could do nothing to cause the abatement of noise at the student rally against budget cuts.

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