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California can't ban vanity license plates it considers 'offensive,' judge rules

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Vanity License Plate - California (Photo by: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO - California can’t enforce a ban vanity license plates it considers “offensive to good taste and decency” because that violates freedom of speech, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.U.S.

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.They included a gay man in Oakland who owns Queer Folks Records and wanted to use the word “QUEER” but was refused because the DMV said that might be considered insulting; a fan of the rock band Slayer who was.

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