{"id":199,"date":"2015-03-26T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/03\/26\/private-property-rights-in-license-plates\/"},"modified":"2015-03-26T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T18:57:00","slug":"private-property-rights-in-license-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/private-property-rights-in-license-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Property Rights in License Plates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the US Supreme Court heard a Texas case about\u00a0confederate flag license plates, because fans of the\u00a0Dukes of Hazards are\u00a0moving\u00a0to Texas in droves.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen any Klingon license plates in Austin- yet, but the Trekkie community is deeply divided and have retained counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Seems weird to argue about license plates at the US Supreme Court, but in 1977 the US Supreme Court set forth the idea that a\u00a0license plate is free speech on private property. The case was Wooley v. Maynard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Private property rights are everywhere; in your\u00a0DNA, license plates, and your land.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2015\/03\/argument-preview-when-the-license-plate-speaks\/\">ScotusBlog<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/headlines\/20150323-justices-question-both-sides-on-confederate-license-plate-issue.ece\">Dallas Morning News<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2015\/3\/23\/supreme-court-hears-case-over-texas-confederate-license-plates.html\">Al Jazeera America<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2015\/03\/23\/battle-flag-at-center-supreme-court-free-speech-case\/\">FoxNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the US Supreme Court heard a Texas case about\u00a0confederate flag license plates, because fans of the\u00a0Dukes of Hazards are\u00a0moving\u00a0to Texas in droves.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen any Klingon license plates in Austin- yet, but the Trekkie community is deeply divided and have retained counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Seems weird to argue about license plates at the US Supreme Court, but in 1977 the US Supreme Court set forth the idea that a\u00a0license plate is free speech on private property. The case was Woo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-legal-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}