Legal

Two Billboard Company Misconceptions About Landlords

Last week out of home site development expert Andy Goodman discussed 4 misconceptions landowners have about out of home companies.  Today he talks about two misconceptions out of home companies have about landlords. What misconceptions do out of home companies have about landlords? That if you give them too much […]

A Lease By Any Other Name is Still a Lease…

A lease by any other name is still a lease.  That’s the lesson of Naegele Outdoor Advertising Co vs the Bureau of Indian Affairs.  Here are the facts. In 1979 and 1981, Diana and Lucille Bow, two members of the Calliente Band of the Cahuilla Indians entered into two “operating […]

Four Misconceptions Landowners Have About Out of Home Companies

Today out of home development expert Andy Goodman talks about 4 misconceptions landowners have about out of home. I’m not getting a fair share of revenues Landowners ask me “How can I avoid having the billboard company package my billboard with a number of other properties and not give me […]

Rothfelder’s OOH Legal Predictions For 2022

Little did I know after enthusiastically bidding good riddance to 2020 in my Billboard Insider article on 2021 OOH legal predictions,  there would be a few days later an insurgence at the Capital, followed by a few weeks later a crippling ice storm in my hometown of Houston and throughout […]

Rothfelder On StreetMediaGroup vs Colorado DOT

Billboard Insider reported in its December 27th edition on the recent decision in StreetMediaGroup and Turnpike Media vs Colorado DOT. This December 6, 2021 opinion from the US District Court for the District of Colorado is extremely important, as it represents the next development in the long running saga of […]

Billboard Leases on Tribal Land

Think you can write a lease with a tribe and be done with it?  Not so fast, especially if the tribe hasn’t qualified under the Hearth Act. The Hearth Act is a federal law  passed in 2012 which allows Indian tribes to write business leases for a primary term of […]

How Should A Landlord Determine Market Rents?

Out of home development expert Andy Goodman writes for Billboard Insider on development issues.  His last column discussed billboards on native american tribe lands.  Today he discusses the best way to determine market rent for a billboard lease. So the question here is how do I know that I’m getting […]

Colorado Court Upholds Billboard Regulations Triggered by Compensation

On December 6, 2021 the US District Court for the District of Colorado dismissed a request by Street Media Group and Turnpike Media to throw out Colorado’s billboard regulations.  Street Media Group and Turnpike Media argued that Colorado State Department of Transportations sign rules were unconstitutional because they were impermissibly […]

Cincinnati Asks Supreme Court to Review Cincy Tax Case

Cincinnati has petitioned the US Supreme Court to  review the issue of whether a municipal excise tax on billboards abridges freedom of speech.  The Ohio State Supreme Court ruled that a billboard tax infringed on the first amendment rights of a small group of speakers.  A Maryland Supreme Court ruled […]