Lorne Grabher

• Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of Nova Scotia man’s ‘Grabher’ licence plate case

  The Supreme Court of Canada won't hear an appeal by a Nova Scotia man who was seeking to reverse the revocation of a personalized licence plate bearing his surname, 'Grabher.'

  Canada

  Mar 17, 2022
  
• Nova Scotia top court dismisses ‘GRABHER’ licence plate appeal

  Justice Cindy A. Bourgeois wrote that the original trial judge was right to rule that Lorne Grabher's personalized plate was not an area to which freedom of expression applied.

  Canada

  Aug 24, 2021
  
• Advertisement
• Nova Scotia man appeals revocation of personalized licence plate bearing surname

  The Nova Scotia Supreme Court said that constitutionally protected freedom does not extend to government-owned licence plates.

  Canada

  Jan 19, 2021
• Advertisement
• Grabher gets appeal date in fight over revocation of personalized licence plate

  A Nova Scotia man fighting the province's decision to revoke a personalized licence plate that bears his surname - Grabher.

  Canada

  Aug 21, 2020
• Lorne Grabher to appeal ruling that upheld revocation of personalized licence plate

  Lorne Grabher says the province infringed on his freedom of expression, but the Nova Scotia Supreme Court said that constitutionally protected right does not extend to government-owned plates.

  Crime

  Mar 9, 2020
• N.S. court says man’s rights not infringed when Grabher plate was revoked 

  Lorne Grabher's Nova Scotia plate was taken back in 2016 by the province's Registrar of Motor Vehicles after the agency received a complaint from a woman who said it promoted hatred toward women.

  Canada

  Jan 31, 2020
• ‘We are not all Smiths and Johns’: Grabher licence plate saga nearing its end

  Lorne Grabher appeared in Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Thursday, where his lawyer argued that the 2016 revocation of his personalized 'Grabher' licence plate amounted to discrimination against the German-Austrian heritage from which the name stems.

  Canada

  Apr 26, 2019
• How court battle over ‘Grabher’ licence plate mirrors wider societal debate

  A legal battle over a controversial Nova Scotia licence plate - "GRABHER" - has sparked a heated debate between prominent academics about freedom of expression and "rape culture."

  Politics

  Apr 25, 2019
• Advertisement
• ‘Grabher’ licence plate not dangerous, former sex researcher tells N.S. court

  Grabher first purchased the plate as a gift for his late father around 1990, and he says it expressed family pride in their Austrian-German heritage.

  Canada

  Apr 24, 2019
• Advertisement
• Billboard seeks support for Lorne Grabher as licence plate battle goes to court

  Grabher first purchased the personalized licence plate as a gift for his late father around 1990, and he says it expressed family pride in their Austrian-German heritage.

  Canada

  Apr 23, 2019