by Bob Walsh
U.
S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar ruled that the DMV must remove the
stick from it's collective ass with regards to personalized license
plates. He pointed out that the "messages" on these plates were
personal speech and the current standard of "connotations offense to
good taste and decency" are unconstitutional and must be shifted to a
"viewpoint neutral reasonable" standard.
Among
those that had been rejected were "QUEER" applied for by the owner of
Queer Folks Recording and "OG WOOLF" by a guy whose name was O G
Woolf.
Tigar did allow
that DMV could continue to deny messages that were on their face
obscene, profane or contained "hate speech" because these were outside
of the protection of the First Amendment.
I wonder if "FYFYM" is taken yet?
(I
actually knew the woman who used to be in charge of the review for
these plates. She was a nice lady but she was so "square" that she
didn't get most of the ones that were truly offensive and tacky.) Her
staff had to explain them to her.
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