On August 26, 2016, the Texas Appeals Court for the Third District in Austin voided the two sections of the Texas Highway Beautification Act (“HBA”) addressing permits, licenses, enforcement, and regulation on the ground that the Act violated the First Amendment’s protection of Free Speech after the US Supreme Court’s […]
Harvard Law Review has a May 10, 2016 article titled “Free Speech After Reed v. Town of Gilbert.” Some of the article’s conclusions: Lower courts have begun narrowing the scope of Reed v Gilbert. Lower courts are using Reed v Gilbert to invalidate sign codes which treat different forms of […]
The Opelika Observer has written about Rose City Outdoor’s successful challenge to local sign law using Reed v Gilbert as a precedent. Here are the facts. Rose City Outdoor submitted applications for 6 commercial billboards (conventional advertising) and 2 non-commercial billboards (which would run public service messages). All of the […]
The Clayton News Daily reports that Morrow, Georgia has passed a moratorium on billboard construction. The moratorum stops construction or application for billboards over 35 square feet in size. The moratorium was requested by the city attorney’s office to review the constitutionality of the city’s sign ordinance in the wake […]
