#California motorcycle plates license#

#California motorcycle plates license#

вЂњThis is a great day for our clients and the 250,000 Californians that seek to express their messages on personalized license plates each year,вЂќ attorney Wen Fa of the Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed the lawsuit, said in a statement.

However, Tigar said the DMV probably could be permitted to deny plates that are, for instance, obscene, profane or contain hate speech because they fall outside of First Amendment protections. Supreme Court case allowing an Asian American rock band to call itself The Slants in saying that public speech canвЂ™t be barred because it may offend some people. The judge said the personalized messages were types of personal expression, not вЂњgovernment speech,вЂќ and therefore regulations governing them вЂњmust be both viewpoint-neutral and reasonable.вЂќ Supreme Court free-speech cases, the judge struck down a DMV standard that said vanity license plate configurations canвЂ™t carry вЂњconnotations offensive to good taste and decency.вЂќ Others were refused because their plates might look or sound like a swear word or might be construed as sexual, according to the judgeвЂ™s ruling. They included a gay man in Oakland who owns Queer Folks Records and wanted to use the word вЂњQUEERвЂќ but was refused because the DMV said that might be considered insulting a fan of the rock band Slayer who was notified that вЂњSLAAYRRвЂќ would be considered вЂњthreatening, aggressive or hostileвЂќ and an Army veteran who wanted to note his nickname and love of wolves with вЂњOGWOOLFвЂќ but was refused because the DMV said the OG might be construed as a reference to вЂњoriginal gangster.вЂќ District Judge Jon Tigar ruled in a case filed in March against Department of Motor Vehicles Director Steve Gordon on behalf of five Californians who were denied permission to put their messages on personalized license plates. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Д¬alifornia canвЂ™t enforce a ban vanity license plates it considers вЂњoffensive to good taste and decencyвЂќ because that violates freedom of speech, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.