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Motorist sues state to keep GETOSAMA license plate

The man with the "GETOSAMA" license plates now wants to get the Department of Motor Vehicles into court.

Arno Herwerth, a retired New York Police Department sergeant and a Hauppauge resident, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the agency Monday, saying the DMV violated his right to free speech by insisting his vanity license plates be returned because it deemed the message offensive.

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