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 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 […]
Are you liable for damages if a landlord cancels your billboard lease and you put up a billboard nearby which prevents the landlord from putting up a billboard? No, based on U.P.C Inc dba Garco Industrial Park v R.O.A. General, Inc. dba Reagan Outdoor Advertising (“Reagan”). Here are the facts. […]
A US District Court Judge for the Southern District of Indiana ruled yesterday in favor of GEFT Outdoor in its case versus the City of Evansville. GEFT sued Evansville after being denied a variance request to construct a digital billboard. Here are links to the Court’s Entry on Cross Motions […]
In addition to my representation of the sign industry in a variety of regulatory disputes and business transactions, my “night job” was as the former Mayor for 16 years and the current City Attorney for the last 10 of the City of Southside Place, a predominantly residential suburb of Houston, […]
The Scenic America website has a link to a 2011 study by a University of Pennsylvania researcher Jonathan Snyder which found that in Philadelphia, billboards had an adverse impact on the value of homes nearby. Billboard Insider has seen references to this study by city planners who are anti-billboard. Correlation […]
By Ken Klein, EVP – Government Affairs, OAAA A federal judge in Indiana (nominated by President Trump) issued an injunction against a local sign-variance process as subjective and vague, and therefore unconstitutional. The ruling is a victory for GEFT Outdoor, which sought a digital billboard permit in Monroe County (IN). “The […]
By Michael F Wright The November 10 oral argument in City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising provided limited but interesting insights into how the justices line up in the Court’s first billboard case since its fractured 1981 decision in Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego. The issue in […]
I attended a Council Meeting this week, via Zoom, representing a billboard company that requested a Zone Text Amendment to allow for the following changes to the Code: from 10×30 to 14×48, digital upgrades and additional locations allowed on the freeway. The project went to the Planning Commission in August, […]
Billboard Insider recently received a legal question from a reader, asking if the following municipal ordinance provision was arbitrary, unconstitutional, or otherwise illegal: 6.604 Off-Premises Advertising Signs and Billboards: The intent of this Section 6.604 is to limit the number, size and location of off-premises advertising signs and billboards to […]
