Woman Succeeds in Free Speech Bid Over Vanity License Plate

A Delaware state law that permits individuals to create vanity license plates must be revised after a federal judge determined it violated the First Amendment

Judge Gregory B. Williams, of the US District Court for the District of Delaware, concluded parts of Reg. 2285 were unconstitutionally overboard and had been arbitrarily enforced after Kari Overington challenged the state law.

Overington, a cancer survivor, sued three Delaware state officials, alleging her First and Fourteenth rights were violated when her “FCANCER” vanity license plate was recalled. Delaware law permits people to create personalized license plates, but says the state retains the right ...