Walker v. Texas Div., Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc.

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• concluding that Texas’s approval of various graphics for specialty license plates was government “expressive conduct”
• holding that the government had control over the message (license plate designs) pursuant to state statute that gave them “final approval authority” over their selection
• holding that Texas specialty license plates are government speech and considering that “Texas maintains direct control over the messages conveyed on its specialty plates”
• holding that “specialty license plates . . . convey government speech” despite the fact that private individuals display the messages
• holding that specialty license plates were government speech even though the State may have profited from the sale of them
• holding that the state-issued license plates in question, many of which contained trademarked phrases, comprised government speech

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