By Michael Wardle, General Counsel, YESCO Outdoor Media If you’ve been in the outdoor business long enough, then there’s a good chance you have a received a letter from an attorney representing a landowner that challenges the validity of a ground lease. Such a letter may make one or more […]
Billboard Insider has previously reported that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of the City of Austin to Reagan National’s and Lamar Outdoor’s successful First Amendment challenge to the on-premise/off-premise distinction in the Austin Sign Code. More specifically, in Reagan and Lamar vs Austin, the United States […]
A billboard lease is not a license. That’s the lesson of Justin Management vs Metro Outdoor. Here are the facts. Justin Management subleased property to Metro outdoor to provide Metro the exclusive rights to install advertising on Justin’s property. The sublease included language saying that it would inure to the […]
Patrick Kilduff, Partner and Chair of the Outdoor Advertising Practice at Tarter Krinsky and Drogin talked about New York City Out of Home Law on a December 2020 Law Brief Podcast. Insider notes that Kilduff’s comments should not be taken as legal advice. For that you should consult your own […]
Part 3 in a series on First Amendment Sign Cases by J. Allen Smith, an eminent domain and condemnation expert at Settlepou, a Dallas law firm. Smith previously discussed Metromedia and two cases which amplified Metromedia. The reverberations of Reed v. Town of Gilbert are in full effect. Its […]
Insider has written before about the dangers of using a middleman who marks up billboard properties without you knowing it. Same thing applies to doing business with a middleman who stands between you and a billboard’s landlord. Take the case of Stevenson v Clausel: In 1964, Liberty Sign Company agreed […]
