On Monday a Commonwealth Court in Pennsylvania denied an appeal by the City of Pittsburgh of an earlier Commonwealth Court decision allowing Lamar Advertising to keep the Mount Washington billboard. The city intends to appeal the ruling to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. When will Mayor Peduto stop throwing good money […]
More Miles Driven; Fewer Fatalities Good news for the first half of 2019: vehicle miles driven was up while fatalities declined. Traffic fatalities declined 3.4 percent in the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2018 Vehicle miles driven increased .8 percent These half-year estimates […]
When Insider saw an article in the New York Post we noticed, in particular, the headline below: Many of you know that Ballyhoo Media has been in a David versus Goliath dispute with both New York City and State over whether they could operate their floating digital billboard on New […]
By Ken Klein OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs Following the September 18 webinar on cannabis advertising OAAA received many more questions on the topic. What about taxi tops? Yes. Taxi tops carry ads for cannabis businesses. Here are examples of cannabis ads in Las Vegas, Miami, and Los Angeles: […]
OAAA SVP Ken Klein summarized the issues surrounding Bill Thomas’ challenge to Tennessee’s state billboard rules at last week’s IBOUSA convention in Memphis. Here’s a summary of the discussion. Why did the plaintiff (billboard builder Bill Thomas of Tennessee) succeed in court? A federal judge in Memphis and recently a […]
The State of Tennessee wants a federal appeals court to reconsider a recent decision that Tennessee’s billboard law is unconstitutional. Tennessee, via a petition filed September 25, is seeking a review of this important billboard case by the full US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (known as an en banc […]
The Post Gazette has written an editorial urging the city to respect Lamar’s property rights and end the fight over the Mount Washington sign: “Property rights are a fundamental right. The government cannot impose arbitrary restriction on the use of one’s property if that use is legal – and indeed […]
In addition to owning Elevation Outdoor, Martin Daniel sits in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Insider talked with Daniel about what’s next in Tennessee following the US Sixth Court of Appeal’s September 11 ruling that Tennessee’s billboard law is unconstitutional. Will a special session be called to deal with the […]
Chris Cowlbeck and his staff at IBOUSA have once again scheduled a productive, educational, and fun conference at the beautiful Graceland Guest House in Memphis on October 2 through 4. I’ll be presenting on the “Practical Aspects of Billboard Condemnations: A Case Study under Texas Law” in the afternoon session […]
A federal appeals court ruled that a local transit authority in Pennsylvania cannot exclude ads that refer to religion because that violates the First Amendment. The County of Lackawanna Transit System’s policy to ban “speech related to religion discriminates based on the basis of viewpoint,” said the US Third Circuit […]
