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A driver in Ohio has won the right to have a licence plate that reads “GAY” after a court agreed that the state’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) had “erred” in rejecting his request.
William Saki filed a lawsuit after the application for his desired car licence plate was rejected for being “inappropriate or invalid”, as were ones bearing the words “QUEER” and “HOMO”, according to The Buckeye Flame.
He argued that the plates would not violate any BMV guidelines, and found that plates that read “NO GAYS”, “NO HOMOS” and “STR8” were listed as available.
Saki filed a joint suit against the BMV and the Ohio Department of Public Safety, with Cyrus Mahdavi, who had been prevented from having a plate reading “MUSLIM”, despite the fact that “ATHEIST” and “BAPTIST” were permitted.
Judge Dan Aaron Polster dismissed the case on Thursday (10 September) after “representatives of the BMV conceded that [they] had erred in rejecting ...
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