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07-08-2009, 05:36 PM #1
Nev. court permits 'HOE' license
Nev. court permits 'HOE' license
By BRENDAN RILEY, The Associated Press
2:07 p.m. July 8, 2009
CARSON CITY, Nev. — A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency refused to renew on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.
The high court said the DMV based its refusal of William Junge's plate on definitions found in the Web-based Urban Dictionary, which includes user contributions. It ruled that the contributed definitions "do not always reflect generally accepted definitions for words."
Junge, whose suit was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, said he had the personalized plate from 1999 to 2006, when the DMV refused to let him renew it.
He said he wanted "TAHOE" for the plate on his 1999 Chevy Tahoe, but it wasn't available so he settled for "HOE." For his plate background, he picked one with a Lake Tahoe panorama.
The high court said Urban Dictionary "allows, if not encourages, users to invent new words or attribute new, not generally accepted meanings to existing words."
But "a reasonable mind would not accept the Urban Dictionary entries alone as adequate to support a conclusion that the word 'HOE' is offensive or inappropriate," the justices wrote.
Rebecca Gasca of the ACLU of Nevada said the action by a DMV supervisor to block Junge from renewing his license plate violated constitutional First Amendment protections. Junge had dropped out of the litigation but the ACLU continued the fight.
"While the Urban Dictionary might be an entertaining Web site about the English language, the court acknowledged it's not a reliable source for DMV decision-making about whether a license plate is vulgar," Gasca said.
In written briefs submitted to the state Supreme Court, an attorney for the DMV argued there was no First Amendment violation and the state has a reasonable basis for regulating vanity plates on vehicles. It also said the term "hoe" was derogatory toward women.
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07-08-2009, 05:48 PM #2
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What a waste of energy and money. Still think we need the ACLU?
Couldn't another government clown just have said "The name is in use already?" Probably couldn't speak English to begin with.
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07-08-2009, 05:49 PM #3
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He also could be a garden nut that likes to hoe his vegetable garden.
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07-08-2009, 07:00 PM #4
Since prostitution is legal in Nevada, I am surprised it's not already taken.
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07-08-2009, 11:17 PM #5
The high court said the DMV based its refusal of William Junge's plate on definitions found in the Web-based Urban Dictionary, which includes user contributions
Well, given that many of the users contributing to the Urban Dictionary aren't exactly the most brilliant people in the world, they should've recognized that there was a slight misspelling involved:
Hoe: Garden implement
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07-09-2009, 08:05 AM #6The high court said Urban Dictionary "allows, if not encourages, users to invent new words or attribute new, not generally accepted meanings to existing words."
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07-09-2009, 12:30 PM #7Originally Posted by azwreathNO AMNESTY
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07-10-2009, 05:42 AM #8Originally Posted by JohnDoe2
LOL......true.
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07-10-2009, 08:55 PM #9
So the control freaks lost..HA!
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