United States Supreme Court
Walker v. Texas Div., Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc., 14-144
In a dispute involving Texas's specialty license plate program, under which those who want the State to issue a particular specialty plate may propose a plate design and if the Department of Motor Vehicles Board approves the design the State will make it available for display on vehicles registered in Texas, the Fifth Circuit's holding, that the specialty license plate design s are private speech and that the Board engaged in constitutionally forbidden viewpoint discrimination when it refused to approve plaintiff's design featuring a Confederate battle flag, is reversed where Texas's specialty license plate designs constitute government speech, and thus Texas was entitled to refuse to issue plates featuring plaintiff's proposed design.
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/18/2015
- Published 06/18/2015
Judges
- Breyer
Court
- United States Supreme Court