Insider’s Note: Richard Rothfelder is a Partner at Rothfelder & Falick and a frequent and welcome legal contributor at Billboard Insider. During the last few days of its term, the US Supreme Court decided on June 21, 2019 an extremely important case, for both the outdoor advertising industry and Supreme […]
In June 2018 the city of Cincinnati passed a 7% tax on billboard revenues. Lamar and Norton Outdoor got the tax blocked in court. The case is on appeal. On Wednesday’s Billboard Insider podcast Insider asked Mike Norton what he learned from that experience: I would like to think that […]
A federal appeals court ruled against open-ended delays in responding to billboard permit applications and also took a swing at Pennsylvania’s prohibition against billboards near interchanges.The ruling was issued July 15 (Adams Outdoor Advertising v. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation). Background Adams applied for a state permit in 2016 to install […]
Fox4kc.com and 41KSHB report that Kansas City is considering a zoning ordinance 190514 to permit new digital billboards. The city has had a ban on digital billboards since 2007. Yesterday the planning commission held a hearing on the issue. The proposal includes the following: A 7:1 takedown ratio. 7 […]
The Morning Call reports that the Easton, PA Zoning Hearing board has rejected an appeal by Adams Outdoor Advertising for a 10 by 15 foot digital billboard in Centre Square. Adams will appeal the decision in Northhampton County Court. The site’s owner says a billboard is necessary to attract a […]
The Daily Tribune says that Bartow County, Georgia and the city of Cartersville are going to hold talks to iron out streamlined intergovernmental guidelines for digital billboards. The article quotes a county planner: “the City has one requirement, the County has another requirement and the State has a third requirement […]
By Michael Wright, Billboard Attorney. Everyone knows that the Supreme Court’s decision in Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego (1981) is the leading case on sign regulation. For 38 years, courts have followed Metromedia’s four-justice plurality opinion in upholding laws that selectively ban offsite commercial signs. But the 4-2-3 […]
Insider found this post on the Ecologistics.org website: Do you think that landowners have an easy time getting billboards removed from their properties? Think again. A difficult reality confronts a landowner intending retirement and removal of a billboard which has an expired lease. When landowners no longer want their properties […]
Adam Shapiro, the CEO of Ballyhoo Media reached out to Insider after our article on Monday. We thought it would be helpful to get their perspective on the New York situation so here is our interview with Adam. Adam, when you entered the New York market, what service were you […]
In a victory for property rights, the Supreme Court overruled precedent that had set up a Catch-22 blocking property owners from pursuing takings claims against state and local governments in federal court. The 5-4 ruling was issued June 21; Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion (Knick v. Township […]
