Lots of speculation as to whether the US Supreme Court will take up an appeals court decision that the city of Austin’s ban on off-premise digital billboards violates the First Amendment.  The case is Reagan and Lamar versus City of Austin.   Austin has approved a legal services agreement with a lawyer to take the case to the Supreme Court.  The deadline to file the petition is January 21, 2020.

Insider’s take:  The Supreme Court only accepts 1-2% of the cases which are submitted to it to review.  Insider talked to an out of home attorney who said this: “If I was a betting man, I would place my money on the Supremes not granting the petition by Austin since they recently denied the petition by Tennessee in the Thomas case and I would think the legal issues are identical.”

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