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struggle4progress

(118,332 posts) Fri Jul 31, 2015, 01:53 PM Jul 2015

Federal judge rules that Virginia may ban Confederate license plates

By Antonio Olivo July 31 at 12:20 PM

A federal judge ruled Friday that Virginia can refuse to issue specialty license plates that show the Confederate flag ...

U.S. District Judge Jackson Kiser said he will issue a written order to address whether the ... license plates that have already been issued may be recalled ...

At a U.S. District Court hearing in Danville, state Attorney General Mark R. Herring’s office argued that a 14-year-old injunction that keeps Virginia from prohibiting the use of the flag on license plates should be vacated because the Supreme Court found that government-issued items are not protected as free speech ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/friday-in-federal-court-confederate-flag-on-va-license-plates-to-be-debated/2015/07/30/a9859e6c-36da-11e5-9739-170df8af8eb9_story.html

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Federal judge rules that Virginia may ban Confederate license plates (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP

I think this was decided under the "Wellduh Precedent" Nuclear Unicorn Jul 2015 #1

Mebbe. This is the same judge who, a few years ago, struggle4progress Jul 2015 #2

Wow. You really know your judges. Do you have, like, judicial trading cards or something? Nuclear Unicorn Jul 2015 #3

Info's in the WaPo article struggle4progress Jul 2015 #5

After the SCOTUS case for the Texas license plates, the law should be clear Gothmog Jul 2015 #4

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

1. I think this was decided under the "Wellduh Precedent"

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 01:57 PM

Jul 2015

Well DUH!

struggle4progress

(118,332 posts)

2. Mebbe. This is the same judge who, a few years ago,

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 02:18 PM

Jul 2015

ordered Virginia to issue the plates when it was refusing to do so. Now, after the SCOTUS ruling, Virginia again insisted it wouldn't issue such plates, and plaintiffs went back to the judge to ask for continued enforcement of his prior order, arguing the SCOTUS case wasn't on-point.They lost there but he has yet to rule on whether the state can recall the plates issued under his prior order.

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

3. Wow. You really know your judges. Do you have, like, judicial trading cards or something?

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 02:22 PM

Jul 2015

"I've almost completed the entire 3rd appellate court series! I got some extra 5th circuits if you want them."

"Nah. They're a bunch of back-benchers."

struggle4progress

(118,332 posts)

5. Info's in the WaPo article

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 03:44 PM

Jul 2015

Gothmog

(145,496 posts)

4. After the SCOTUS case for the Texas license plates, the law should be clear

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 02:46 PM

Jul 2015

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