Government Speech and North Carolina’s ‘Choose Life’ License Plate

Posted by admin on Monday, January 16, 2012

JURIST Guest Columnist: Scott Gaylord of Elon University School of Law says a district court applied an outdated government speech test when it issued an injunction preventing North Carolina from allowing drivers to select “Choose Life” license plates, the proper test should ask if government controls the speech, not if a third party can tell that the government is speaking…