Editors note. Our article about the Los Angeles Sign Ordinance included a picture of signs along Hollywood Blvd. We apologize to anyone who read the article as suggesting that any of the signs in the picture is an illegal sign. That wasn’t our intent. We have removed the picture from […]
Out of home appraiser Paul Wright estimates that there are 200-400 billboard condemnations in the US each year. If you are in business long enough, your out of home company will receive a letter from a state transportation authority notifying you that they are condemning the land on which your […]
Billboard Insider recently watched a November 19, 2024 Lexington County Zoning Appeals board meeting in which Lamar unsuccessfully tried to prevent Grace Outdoor from putting up a billboard after the landlord terminated a Lamar billboard lease. It’s a complicated case which begins at 20:54 of the recording but what caught […]
Billboard Insider’s article discussing the Glorycrest v. Adams Outdoor lawsuit struck home from a transactional perspective. To recap, the Michigan lawsuit led to the invalidation of Adams’s lease of property due to a prohibition on billboards found in a restrictive covenant in a nearly 100 year old right of way […]
Last Friday Billboard Insider reviewed a case in which a restrictive covenant in a 97 year old right of way agreement voided a billboard lease. Lots of comments. An out of home executive says the case highlights the need for a title search and research Adams could have done […]
A restrictive covenant in a 97 year old right of way agreement can invalidate a billboard lease. That’s the lesson of Glorycrest Carpenter Road v Adams Outdoor. Here are the facts In October 1927 a group of landowners conveyed a Release of Right of Way (“1927 Release”) to the State […]
Is was February 2021 when Insider first reported that the Shinnecock Indian Nation had publicly refused a state order to cease construction of a second digital billboard on Sunrise Highway on Long Island despite a threat of fines and forceful removal of the tribal structures, arguing the state “lacks authority […]
Billboard Insider has criticized FINCEN Beneficial Ownership filing requirements which impose new shareholder reporting requirements on small businesses. The legal status of the rules has been changing day by day. On December 5 a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction against enforcing the reporting requirements. The reprieve was short-lived. […]
A big shout out to Andy McDonald of the OAAA, who put significant energy into getting us a completed look at each state, whether they have an association and contact information for the states that have an active Out of Home organization. What if your state does not have an […]
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided on November 22, 2024 an interesting First Amendment case involving the advertising of marijuana. Here’s the facts: The State of Mississippi passed in 2022 the “Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act,” which authorized the sale and use of marijuana for certain medicinal purposes. The Act […]
