WI Sees First Amendment Challenge to Personalized Plates

There is now a First Amendment challenge to Wisconsin’s personalized license plan restrictions.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is asking a judge to strike down the state law that allows the DMV to ban license plates that are deemed ‘objectionable.’ WILL lawyers say people have a First Amendment right to personalize their license plate. The case stems from a man who wanted a license plate that read RD RRAGE.

The DMV allowed him to get the plate back in 2003, but later denied his request. WILL’s Lucas Vebber said Wisconsin’s license plate law allows bureaucrats at the DMV to decide what speech is allowed, and what speech is objectionable.