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Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech

posted by CoolHand on Sunday April 05 2015, @04:14PM   
from the lemme-say-whut-i-want dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Recently, oral arguments were heard regarding a case about license plates and the first amendment. The Texas division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has challenged a rejection of their proposed plate that had images of the Confederate flag.

The Texas solicitor general argued that, "Messages on Texas license plates are government speech ... [because] Texas etches its name onto each license plate and Texas law gives the state sole control and final approval authority over everything that appears on a license plate.”

Please share your ideas/comments on this case or your views on vanity plates in general.

Story: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-confederate-license-plates-20150323-story.html
Case: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2014/2014_14_144
What a vanity plate is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_plate

• Re:Common sense says Re:Common sense says (Score: 3, Touché) by FakeBeldin on Monday April 06 2015, @02:56PM

  by FakeBeldin (3360) on Monday April 06 2015, @02:56PM (#166992) Journal

  I showed up to buy my own wedding cake.
  As a matter of fact, I showed up twice (there were three cakes, and I could only manage two in one go).

  I guess two wrongs make a right, so you're still in the clear?

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• Re:Common sense says (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 08 2015, @03:46PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 08 2015, @03:46PM (#167881)

  I showed up to buy my wedding cake too, so we're back to the GP being wrong on that :p.
  (although I don't actually remember the figures on the cake, I do remember it tasting pretty good!)

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