DMV’s stated purpose in issuing license plates. We are not persuaded. As the District Court correctly concluded, Vermont’s restriction on scatological terms — what the Vermont statute describes as “offensive”— reasonably serves legitimate governmental interests. Automobile license plates are governmental property intended primarily to serve a governmental purpose, and inevitably they will be associated with the state that issues them. Although the owner of a vehicle chooses the characters that appear on a vanity plate, the Vermont DMV must approve of a vanity plate before issuing it. The state has a legitimate interest in not communicating the message that it approves of the public display of offensive scatological terms on state license plates. See General Media, 131 F.3d at 283-284 (<HOLDING>). The fact that Perry’s plates do not actually
holding where 1 the government provided the defendant with all the necessary drugmaking materials 2 the government provided instructions on how to make the drugs and 3 the defendant sought out the materials and help from the undercover government agents the case set the outer limits to which the government may go in the quest to ferret out and prosecute crimes but the governments conduct did not rise to the level of a due process violation holding that the government has a legitimate interest in not appearing to endorse lascivious materials on a military base and that banning such materials is a reasonable way to serve that interest holding that defendants interest in preventing the impairment of its performance outweighed plaintiffs interest in disseminating racist materials anonymously through the mail holding that applicants for welfare benefits had a property interest or legitimate claim of entitlement and were entitled to due process to protect that interest holding on summary judgment that a regulation is narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest