Supreme Court Won’t Hear Free Speech Case Over Vanity Plate

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Free Speech Case Over Vanity Plate

The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away a Tennessee woman’s appeal of her state rejecting a personalized license plate for her car. The court rejected the petition in Gilliam v. Gerregano on Dec. 8 in an unsigned order without comment. No justices dissented. The petitioner, Leah Gilliam, is “an avid video gamer and an astronomy buff,” according to her petition filed with the Supreme Court. In 2010, she applied to the state for a custom plate “69P…