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American Civil Liberties Union Of North Carolina V. Tata: Manipulation Of The Government Speech Doctrine Through Specialty License Plates, Kaitlin E. Leary
American Civil Liberties Union Of North Carolina V. Tata: Manipulation Of The Government Speech Doctrine Through Specialty License Plates, Kaitlin E. Leary
Maryland Law Review Online
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Not For Attribution: Government's Interest In Protecting The Integrity Of Its Own Expression, Helen L. Norton
Not For Attribution: Government's Interest In Protecting The Integrity Of Its Own Expression, Helen L. Norton
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Public entities increasingly maintain that the First Amendment permits them to ensure that private speakers’ views are not mistakenly attributed to the government. Consider, for example, Virginia’s efforts to ban the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ display of the Confederate flag logo on state-sponsored specialty license plates. Seeking to remain neutral in the ongoing debate over whether the Confederate flag is a symbol of “hate” or “heritage,” Virginia argued that the state would be wrongly perceived as endorsing the flag if the logo appeared on a state-issued plate adorned by the identifier “VIRGINIA.” The Fourth Circuit was unpersuaded, holding that the …