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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION v. BREDESEN

No. 04-6393.

441 F.3d 370 (2006)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF TENNESSEE; Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee, Inc.; Sally Levine; Hilary Chiz; Joe Sweat, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Philip BREDESEN, Governor of Tennessee; Fred Phillips, Commissioner of Safety of Tennessee, Defendants-Appellees, Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Inc., a non-profit North Carolina Corporation, Defendant, New Life Resources, Inc., Intervening Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: March 17, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: James Bopp, Jr., Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, Indiana, for Appellant. Julie E. Sternberg, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, Jimmy G. Creecy, Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: James Bopp, Jr., Thomas J. Marzen, Anita Y. Woudenberg, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, Indiana, for Appellant. Julie E. Sternberg, Carrie Y. Flaxman, Caroline M. Corbin, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, Jimmy G. Creecy, Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, Melody L. Fowler-Green, Aclu Foundation of Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, Susan L. Kay, Vanderbilt School of Law, Nashville, Tennessee, Roger K. Evans, Donna Lee, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, New York, New York, for Appellees. Mathew D. Staver, Liberty Counsel, Maitland, Florida, Mary E. McAlister, Liberty Counsel, Lynchburg, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae.

Before: MARTIN, NELSON, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

ROGERS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which NELSON, J., joined.

MARTIN, J. (pp. 380-92), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

OPINION

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

In this case we are required to decide the constitutionality of Tennessee's statute making available the purchase of automobile license plates with a "Choose Life" inscription, but not making available...

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