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But the law says otherwise, with a State spokesperson telling the publication that “Generally, Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-4-210(d)(2) prohibits the Tennessee Department of Revenue from issuing a personalized license plate that ‘may carry connotations offensive to good taste and decency or that are misleading… Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-5-117 authorizes the revocation of a motor vehicle registration plate that was erroneously issued contrary to the law.”
In Canada, we regularly have our own debate as to whether the government is making the right calls in pulling the vanity plates they are. Here are some of the most topical from last year.
Jerry LambeJul 6th, 2021, 7:52 pm
Plaintiff Leah Gilliam’s vanity license plate.
A Tennessee woman is suing two of the state’s top political officials for allegedly violating her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights after she was told that she had to give up her vanity license plate which reads 69PWNDU or risk being sent to jail.
The lawsuit, filed in the Chancery Court for Tennessee’s Twentieth Judicial District, says that Plaintiff
Leah Gilliam originally purchased the vanity plate to celebrate her interests as “an astronomy buff and a gamer.” According to the complaint, the “69” is a reference to the year of the moon landing, and “PWNDU,” or “PWND YOU,” is a widely used slang phrase in the gaming community meaning “to totally defeat or dominate.”