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 […]
A federal appeals court heard oral arguments on January 30 on the constitutional (free speech) challenge to billboard law. Each side was allotted 15 minutes before a three-judge panel of the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, OH. The case (Thomas v. Schroer) eventually could be appealed to […]
Last Tuesday the Tacoma City Council unanimously passed Resolution 39890 to settle a 20 year billboard dispute in Tacoma, Washington. In 1997 Tacoma amended the sign code to impose a 10 year amortization period for non-conforming billboards. In 2007 Clear Channel began a legal and public relations counterattack (see billboard on […]
