Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Judge nixes fee for Indy 'God'' plates

|
|
 
  
Published: April 18, 2008 at 3:20 PM

INDIANAPOLIS, April 18 (UPI) -- An Indiana judge has tossed out a lawsuit aimed at forcing motorists to pay an extra $15 for the state's "In God We Trust" license plates.

Marion Superior Court Judge Gary Miller ruled this week that the plate doesn't fall under the rule that requires "special group recognition" plates to carry the added administrative fee.

About 1.6 million Hoosiers have affixed the plates to their vehicles since they were introduced last year, the Indianapolis Star said Friday.

The American Civil Liberties Union had filed the lawsuit on the grounds the fee placed the religious message on a level above plates that support the environment, education or other causes.

Miller's ruling said that the "In God We Trust" plates were made with the same process used to mass-produce the standard Indiana plate and therefore require no special handling fees.

Topics: Gary Miller
© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Notable deaths of 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala
Indianapolis 500 Presidential Medal of Freedom Memorial Day around the nation
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
Driving drunk and unlicensed, with a kid not even buckled let alone in a safety seat, en route to...
Man killed in Spencer fire. The lava lamps must have ignited the blacklight posters
Passenger jet crashes into apartment building in Nigerian capitol. Over 150 princes, bank officials,...
I'll see your zombie apocalypse, and raise you "swarms of deadly spiders" invading a town in India...
Photoshop this woman at the wheel
New book is full of girls in their bedrooms, will be read by people who need to have a seat right...