Saturday, October 09, 2010

Vt. man wins religious vanity plates case appeal

NEW YORK –  "THE REV" and "PSALM48" can join "ARMYMOM" and "DARE2BU" on the license plates of cars in Vermont after a federal appeals court ruled Friday that the First Amendment leaves room for religion on vanity plates.

The three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals in New York reversed a lower-court ruling in the state's favor in a case brought by Shawn Byrne of West Rutland, Vt., whose proposed vanity plate reference to a Bible passage had been rejected by the state in 2004.

Byrne appealed a September 2007 decision by a federal judge in Burlington, Vt., that rejected his 2005 claim that the state discriminated against him when it rejected his application for a license plate that would read: "JN36TN," a reference to the often-quoted Bible verse John 3:16.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Glad to see Shawn finally won this battle. I have been following his case because of my battle here in Washington State in 2005 with my JOHN3:16 license plate. I got to keep it. Christians need to stand up for their rights, before they are all taken away in this country.

http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4152316.html