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Friday, October 8, 2010

“[W]e conclude that Vermont’s ban on all vanity plate combinations that ‘refer, in any language, to a . . . religion’ or ‘deity’ constitutes unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination”: So holds a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a ruling issued today.

The case arose after Vermont rejected the plaintiff’s request for a vanity licence plate consisting of “JN36TN,” referring to the oft-quoted Biblical verse John 3:16.

Posted at 2:40 PM by Howard Bashman