Tag: ooh legal

Lessor Sells and Buyer Claims They Own the Billboard. What Are Your Options?

A reader asks Billboard Insider “what happens when someone buys land on which your billboard sits and then claims they own the billboard and threatens to take it down?”  We asked out of home attorney Richard Hamlin of Hamlin|Cody  to comment. Any OOH company that is in business long enough […]

Make your lease binding on successors, heirs and assigns.

Make sure your leases binding on successors, heirs and assigns.  That’s the lesson of Tavakoli v CBS Outdoor.  Here’s a summary of the case.   In 1993 National Advertising entered into a lease with Fred Cullincini for the operation of a billboard along Highway 99 in Stockton CA.  The lease […]