Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans
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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.
Quick Facts Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Argued March 23, 2015 Decided June 18, 2015 ...
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 |
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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]