Here are six out of home stories Billboard Insider thinks are worth watching in 2018. Clear Channel Outdoor Gains Freedom? Insider expects iHeart Media to go bankrupt during 2018. As part of the process Clear Channel Outdoor shares will either be sold or transferred to iHeart’s creditors. Insider thinks this […]
Jeff Lee’s GEFT Outdoor has initiated a Reed v Gilbert lawsuit against the city of Westfield, Indiana. GEFT wishes to put up a digital billboard in the city and has sued the city for damages because the city’s content-based sign code prohibits the digital billboard. You can read the complaint here. […]
Kerry Yoakum is VP, Government Affairs for OAAA. He joined OAAA in 2008 after practicing law as an attorney for the Ohio Department of Transportation. Insider asked Kerry to talk about out of home regulatory trends. What were some of the most important legal issues this year? From a national […]
The US District Court for Nevada has partly granted and partly denied a petition by the City of Reno, Nevada to throw out a lawsuit by Strict Scrutiny Media. Strict Scrutiny Media secured several billboard leases and permits on three parcels of land in Reno. In 2016 the city ordered […]
Last week the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals denied a Reed v Gilbert challenge to San Francisco’s ban on new off-premises commercial billboards. Since 2002, San Francisco has banned new off-premise billboards while permitting new on-premise signs. Contest Promotions challenged the ban, arguing that the regulation was content based and […]
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 […]
In their March Legal Report, OAAA Counsel Eric Rubin explores the ties that bind all outdoor advertising companies. A shared interest in the core legal and legislative issues transcends size and geography. OAAA members range in size from closely-held independent companies that serve a limited number of markets to public […]
The Lagrange Daily News reports that Troup County, Georgia will vote on a 90 day sign moratorium on March 21. The moratorium will give the County Commissioners time to consider whether to permit digital and electronic billboards and what changes are necessary to the sign code to comply with Reed […]
By Kerry Yoakum, OAAA Legal challenges to billboard controls were filed in four states, prompted by a 2015 Supreme Court ruling that bolstered free speech protections. Two of those four cases recently have been dismissed, in Rhode Island and Georgia. In late January, the Rhode Island case (Rhode Island DOT […]
Sign cases at the US Supreme Court aren’t common. But in 2015, a unanimous Supreme Court struck down a local ordinance because it treated temporary church signs differently than others. This free speech case (Reed vs. Town of Gilbert, AZ) prompts an important question: if the Town of Gilbert’s code […]
