[Red Badger]

"To be sure, the First Amendment protects horse owners' rights to free speech, and we do not foreclose Mr. Redmond indiscriminately from asserting that right, but the right to free speech is not absolute in all contexts," Batchelder wrote.

What say ye?..........................

[Lee'sGhost]

Well, I’m thinking I would rename the horse “Judge Alice Batchelder.”

[tpaine]

The Jockey Club, -- forbids horse owners from using names of famous or notorious people without special permission. The club's rules also say that "names considered in poor taste; or names that may be offensive to religious, political or ethnic groups" won't be approved.

"To be sure, the First Amendment protects horse owners' rights to free speech, and we do not foreclose Mr. Redmond indiscriminately from asserting that right, but the right to free speech is not absolute in all contexts," Batchelder wrote.

Badger:
What say ye?

As others have said, Redmond can call his horse anything he wants. But if he wants to race it at a public track, "names that may be offensive to religious, political or ethnic groups" won't be approved.

It's common sense, and common law under our 'fighting words' type codes.

Now, - its your turn, -- what say you?

[MississippiMan]

What say ye?

I say he can name the horse whatever he likes, so long as he doesn't want it to be a part of the Jockey Club. :-)

No first amendment issue here at all that I can see, rather an issue of whether a private organization can set its own reasonable rules.

MM (in TX)