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Supreme Court
Rust v. Sullivan, 500 U.S. 173 (1991)
Perry Education Ass’n v. Perry Local Educators Ass’n, 460 U.S. 37 (1983)
Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705 (1977)

Other
ACLU v. Bredesen, (6th Cir. 2006)
Planned Parenthood of South Carolina v. Rose, (4th Cir. 2004)
Lewis v. Wilson, 253 F.3d 1077 (8th Cir. 2001)
Perry v. McDonald, 280 F.3d 159 (2nd Cir. 2001)
Planned Parenthood v. Rose, 236 F.Supp. 2d 564 (D.S.C. 2002)
Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. v. Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, 288 F.3d 610 (4th Cir. 2002)
Women’s Emergency Network v. Bush, No. 02-13981 (11th Cir. 2003)
Henderson v. Stalder, 287 F.3d 374 (5th Cir. 2002)

Guggenheim, Jack Achiezer and Jed M. Silversmith, “Confederate License Plates at the Constitutional Crossroads: Vanity Plates, Special Registration Organization Plates, Bumper Stickers, Viewpoints, Vulgarity, and the First Amendment,” 54 U. Miami L. Rev. 563 (2000)
Herald, Marybeth, “Licensed to Speak: The Case of Vanity Plates,” 72 Colo. L. Rev. 595 (2001)
Jacobs, Leslie Gielow, “Free Speech and the Limits of Legislative Discretion: The Example of Specialty License Plates,” 53 Fla. L. Rev. 419 (2001)
Jacobs, Leslie Gielow, “The Public Sensibilities Forum,” 95 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1357 (2001)
Marsh, Katherine, “License to Shill,” Legal Affairs (January/February 2003)

State-by-state statutes governing license plates




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