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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Courts - "'I Believe' tag fails test in court Judge says S.C. religious plate based on discriminatory law"
The headline is from this story by Adam Parker today in the Charleston South Carolina Post & Courier.
The ILB has had a number of entries on "Choose Life" and other specialty license plates.
Yesterday the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina rejected an "I Believe" plate. Here is a photo of the plate, here is the opinion, and here is an How Appealing entry listing a number of stories on the ruling.
Recall that the SCOTUS last month, per this report by Adam Liptak of the NY Times, turned down an Illinois "Choose Like" plate appeal:
For at least the fifth time, the Supreme Court declined to wade into the heavily litigated question of whether state motor vehicles departments may or must offer specialty license plates that say “Choose Life.” In declining to hear Choose Life Illinois v. White, No. 08-1283, the court let stand a decision that Illinois was not required to offer “Choose Life” plates along with some 60 other styles because it had “excluded the entire subject of abortion from its specialty plate program” and so was not taking sides in the abortion debate.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 11, 2009 03:34 PM
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