U.S. Appeals Court upholds ruling against N.C. Confederate license plate

A unanimous U.S. Appeals Court panel has ruled against a specialty license plate in North Carolina featuring the Confederate battle flag. The N.C. Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans had gone to court to revive the discontinued plate. In an opinion of little more than one page, Judges Paul Niemeyer, Marvin Quattlebaum, and Henry Floyd rejected the Confederate group’s case.