Legal

Rothfelder & Falick on Billboard Law – Available in Softback & Selling Quickly

  Rothfelder & Falick set out to provide the industry with one source for all aspects of Billboard Law.  This book does just that.  There are 300 pages of summary and articles broken into seven sections including: FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGES AND CONTENT BASED SIGN CODES WHAT THE OPERATOR CAN DISPLAY […]

Rothfelder and Falick on Acquisitions and Leases

At the IBO Conference, Richard Rothfelder, Chris Rothfelder and Mike Falick had an engaging discussion about aspects of billboard law focused around their new book.  Continuing that conversation, here are more excerpts from that discussion as they consider some of the key legal issues facing the OOH industry. Leases, Easements, and […]

Richard Hamlin on the Verde/Renfroe Dispute

Last week Billboard Insider wrote an update on the Verde Renfroe legal dispute.  We asked whether Renfro had any ability to revise its claim based on Verde’s sale to Lamar.  Out of home attorney Richard Hamlin sent in these comments.  We originally attributed the comments to Richard Rothfelder of Rothfelder […]

More on the Verde Renfroe Dispute

Earlier this week, Billboard Insider wrote about a Verde Outdoor (“Verde”) lawsuit alleging fraud against JR Media, John “Jed” Renfroe, Christa Hurley (Jed Renfroe’s sister) and Marcus Ben Jones (collectively “Sellers”. It appears that legal difficulties between the parties commenced with a Petition for Declaratory Judgement filed over a year ago […]

Rothfelder and Falick on Billboard Law – Part II

At the IBO Conference, Richard Rothfelder, Chris Rothfelder and Mike Falick had an engaging discussion about aspects of billboard law focused around their new book.  Continuing that conversation, here are more excerpts from that discussion as they consider some of the key legal issues facing the OOH industry. First Amendment […]

Verde Sues Jed Renfroe for Fraud

Incentives matter.  A post-closing performance based payout on an out of home acquisition provides incentive for a seller to artificially boost revenues.  That’s the lesson of the Verde Outdoor Media (“Verde”)  versus JR Media, John “Jed” Renfroe, Christa Hurley (Jed Renfroe’s sister) and Marcus Ben Jones (collectively “Sellers”).  Here’s the […]

Richard Hamlin on billboard permit vesting and zoning code preemption in California

Last Friday Michael Falick and Chris Rothfelder discussed vesting rights for billboard permits and whether local zoning codes can be pre-empted by a state code.  California out of home attorney Richard Hamlin of Hamlin|Cody says California approaches these issues differently… Count on California to approach these subjects differently. Vesting: Filing […]

Rothfelder and Falick on Billboard Law

At this weeks IBO Conference, Richard Rothfelder, Chris Rothfelder and Mike Falick had an engaging discussion about aspects of billboard law focused around their new book.  Here is an excerpt from that discussion as they consider some of the key legal issues facing the OOH industry. Vested Rights and Local […]

Richard Rothfelder On Why You Need A Permit To Take Down A Billboard

Billboard Insider summarized the case of Clear Channel Outdoor vs Karkif in its April 7th edition, which among other things raised the question of whether a permit is ordinarily required to remove billboards. And, my friend Richard Hamlin commented in the following day’s edition that the Los Angeles Municipal Code does indeed require […]