United States Seventh Circuit
Choose Life Illinois, Inc. v. White, 07-1349
In a suit by an interest group seeking on First Amendment grounds to force the state of Illinois to issue "Choose Life" specialty license plates, judgment in favor of plaintiffs is reversed where: 1) specialty license plates implicate the speech rights of private speakers, not government speech; 2) specialty plates are a nonpublic forum; and 3) the state could enforce a content-based but viewpoint-neutral ban disallowing any abortion-related message, whether pro-life or pro-choice, to be displayed on its license plates.
Appellate Information
- Argued 11/27/2007
- Decided 11/07/2008
- Published 11/07/2008
Judges
- SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before MANION, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Seventh Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Damon Taaffe (argued), Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner, Washington, DC, Thomas L. Brejcha, Jr., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Paul Berks, Office of the Attorney General, Richard S. Huszagh (argued), Office of the Attorney General Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.