Legal Opinion

Cressman v. Thompson

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided August 4, 2015No. 14-6020PublishedCited by 29 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

In this case, we must decide whether Oklahoma’s depiction of a Native American shooting an arrow towards the sky on its standard vehicle license plates compels Appellant Keith Cressman to speak in violation of his First Amendment rights.

In a prior appeal, we determined that Mr. Cressman had alleged sufficient injury to confer standing and that he had stated a plausible compelled-speech claim at the motion-to-dismiss stage. See Cressman v. Thompson, 719 F.3d 1139, 1147-56 (10th Cir.2013) (“Cressman I”). On remand, and after a bench trial, the district court concluded that…

2Cases cited64 opinions

  1. United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Ward v. Rock Against RacismSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  3. Steffel v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  4. West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  5. Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1984

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3Cited by29 opinions

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