I just finished a big trial for an outdoor advertising company against the State over alleged violations of various administrative regulations, including those imposing a minimum distance between signs and ramps. These types of location, spacing, and proximity regulations are usually pretty straight forward and easy to interpret. In this […]
After our post yesterday on Lamar and Johnson City we heard from Richard Hamlin, partner in the Hamlin Cody Law Firm. Here are his thoughts. We had a client with a similar situation. The city acquired railroad right-of-way by deed in lieu of an eminent domain action. The city allowed […]
The Johnson City Press reports that after recently being approached by Lamar about entering into a new contract for a billboard location, Johnson City, TN city officials realized the structure was on city property and have asked that it be removed by Sept. 1. The history is that Lamar originally […]
Billboard Insider gets a lot of questions from readers, and especially in light of the upcoming election, on political billboard advertising in particular. Here’s a recent example: “We have a person here in Vegas that wants to run some pro Trump messaging on our units. He is not affiliated with […]
Insider reviewed 81 OSHA citations written to display advertising companies (NAICS Code 541850) for the last 24 months (January 2018 to January 2020). Three takeaways. Citations declined in 2019 versus 2018. OSHA wrote $49,000 in fines against display advertising companies in 2019 versus $179,000 in fines during 2018. The large […]
The US Supreme Court declined to review the ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that Tennessee’s billboard law was unconstitutional. The ruling invalidated Tennessee’s sign code. On June 25, 2020 Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee signed legislation to revise Tennessee’s sign rules to fix the […]
Yesterday, I reported on Part 1 of the Tennessee Billboard Law Fix, under which Governor Bill Lee signed into law an amendment to Tennessee’s Highway Beautification Act, thereby “curing” the First Amendment defects found by the District and Circuit Courts in Thomas vs Bright. However, while the Tennessee Act is […]
As Billboard Insider reported in its June 25th edition, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law last week HB 2255, which is designed to fix the First Amendment challenges to Tennessee’s version of the Highway Beautification Act raised in the Thomas vs Bright case. Thomas secured rulings from the Federal […]
Insider’s note: California’s privacy law is enforceable on July 1. Insider asked the OAAA for an update and the OAAA provided this Q&A from an attorney who specializes in privacy. Regulatory work like this is a reason why membership in the OAAA is a must for your out of home […]
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed legislation (HB 2255) which moots a pending constitutional challenge to the State’s billboard control act. The Tennessee House voted unanimously to approve the legislation on June 11; the state Senate passed the bill 31-0 on June 4. In 2017, a federal judge in Memphis […]
