United States Second Circuit

In an action alleging that Vermont’s denial of plaintiff's requested vanity license plate, on the grounds that it contained a religious message in violation of state law prohibiting such messages on vanity license plates, violated the Free Speech Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and the Due Process Clause, summary judgment for defendants is reversed where Vermont's ban on all vanity plate combinations that "refer, in any language, to a ... religion" or "deity" constituted unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/08/2010
• Published 10/08/2010

Judges

• Debra Ann Livingston

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeremy D. Tedesco, Eve Jacobs-Carnahan