Food Truck ‘Wandering Dago’ Wins at Free-Speech Case

Jan 04, 2018 1446

BY: Amanda Ottaway

A New York food truck whose name includes an old-fashioned slur for Italians won a First Amendment challenge Wednesday against state regulators. Wandering Dago is the food truck business in question, and its menu is similarly themed, hawking sandwiches with names like Goombah and Polack.

A popular wedding caterer, the company sued in Albany after New York’s Office of General Services deemed its name too offensive in 2013 to let it participate in an outdoor lunch program the state organizes every summer in Albany’s Empire State Plaza. Though a federal judge sided with the state, the Second Circuit reversed Wednesday. Wandering Dago’s rights are assured, the Manhattan-based panel found, by the recent holding in Matal v. Tam.

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