Billboard Insider has previously reported that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of the City of Austin to Reagan National’s and Lamar Outdoor’s successful First Amendment challenge to the on-premise/off-premise distinction in the Austin Sign Code. More specifically, in Reagan and Lamar vs Austin, the United States […]
We’ve discussed lease assignability recently in A Billboard Lease Is Not A License and Out of Home Attorneys on Assignability. Florida out of home attorney Jennifer Sloane reminds of the importance of assignability when it comes to other out of home agreements. By Jennifer Sloane, Esq. Sloane Law Office. The […]
Richard Hamlin and Marnie Christine Cody of Hamlin Cody Law firm are running a series of short videos on Billboard Law. Some highlights from the most recent video. Richard Hamlin Benefits of Digital Billboards They make is possible to pass on current news as it happens. They make it possible […]
Patrick Kilduff, Partner and Chair of the Outdoor Advertising Practice at Tarter Krinsky and Drogin talked about New York City Out of Home Law on a December 2020 Law Brief Podcast. Insider notes that Kilduff’s comments should not be taken as legal advice. For that you should consult your own […]
Make sure your leases specify that your billboard is your personal property and may be removed at termination of the lease. That’s the lesson of Outdoor Systems Advertising v Korth. Here are the facts. Outdoor Systems Advertising (“Outdoor Systems”) had a lease for a billboard on some property in Michigan. […]
Cutting down trees without permission can get you into trouble. That’s the lesson of Blust v Lamar Advertising. Here are the facts. In Sept 1988 Lamar leased land for a billboard in Miami Ohio Township from James Weber. John and Jean Blust owned the land adjacent to the billboard site. […]
Insider received a call from an investor with the following question: I bought a piece of property at a distressed sale. There’s a billboard on the property which is leased to an out of home company. There are back taxes due on the property. I want to create an easement […]
Part 3 in a series on First Amendment Sign Cases by J. Allen Smith, an eminent domain and condemnation expert at Settlepou, a Dallas law firm. Smith previously discussed Metromedia and two cases which amplified Metromedia. The reverberations of Reed v. Town of Gilbert are in full effect. Its […]
Insider has written before about the dangers of using a middleman who marks up billboard properties without you knowing it. Same thing applies to doing business with a middleman who stands between you and a billboard’s landlord. Take the case of Stevenson v Clausel: In 1964, Liberty Sign Company agreed […]
