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Judge: California can't ban offensive license plates

| November 24, 2020 6:33 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California can't enforce a ban vanity license plates it considers “offensive to good taste and decency” because that violates freedom of speech, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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