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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Watson dismisses a complaint, filed by the owner of a controversial vanity license plate reading “FCKBLM,” against Honolulu for attempting to revoke the plate. Vanity license plates are a form of government speech that are subject to rules about profanity that are not too vague. Those regulations do not restrict messages based on viewpoint, as the owner suggested, and the letters FCK can be interpreted as an expletive and are not in themselves a protected viewpoint.
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