The section of the law allowing for denial of personalized plates based on the decency clause is “unconstitutional on its face and as applied to the plaintiff," said U.S. District Judge Roberto Lange in an order signed Friday.
South Dakota officials' vanity plate restrictions were unconstitutional, lawsuit settlement says
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Lange, the judge in the Oglala Sioux case, has noted the Pine Ridge reservation is among the most impoverished places in the country.
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