Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans | |
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Argued March 23, 2015 Decided June 18, 2015 | |
Full case name | John Walker, III, Chairman, Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Board, et al., Petitioners v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc., et al. |
Docket no. | 14-144 |
Citations | 576 U.S. 200 (more) 135 S. Ct. 2239; 192 L. Ed. 2d 274 |
Case history | |
Prior | Summary judgment granted, Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans v. Vandergriff, No. 1:11-cv-01049 (W.D. Tex. April 12, 2013); reversed, 759 F.3d 388 (5th Cir. 2014); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 752 (2014). |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Breyer, joined by Thomas, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan |
Dissent | Alito, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. I |
Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 576 U.S. 200 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that license plates are government speech and are consequently more easily regulated/subjected to content restrictions than private speech under the First Amendment.
The Texas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans sought to have a specialty license plate issued in the state of Texas with an image of the Confederate Battle Flag. The request was denied prompting the group to sue, claiming that denying a specialty plate was a First Amendment violation.[1]
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