Insider wrote this in A Billboard Lease is Not a License: Make sure your billboard leases have language which says the agreement inures to the benefit of successors and assigns. Your billboard lease should also contain a clause permitting assignment without consent. Some landlords will object. Next best is language […]
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 […]
Yesterday Insider posted that the city of Austin is trying to get the Supreme Court to review the Austin v Reagan decision. Hamlin Cody’s Richard Hamlin has this comment: No one can be certain, or even predict, whether the Supreme Court will hear a case. The Court’s Rule 10 says […]
By Richard Hamlin, Hamlin Cody California’s Bureau of Cannabis Control allowed cannabis advertising on interstate highways if at least fifteen miles from the state’s border. In late November 2020, a judge in San Luis Obispo ruled that the regulation was illegal. The court formally entered its judgment on January 11, […]
(Part 1, yesterday, Richard Hamlin described a court decision banning all marijuana advertising on Interstate Highways within California and on State Highways that cross its border. The decision struck down a regulation that banned such advertising only within 15 miles of the state’s border. The decision found the regulation to […]
Insider reported last week on a court ruling that billboards advertising marijuana will no longer be allowed along California highways. To get a better sense of what comes next, we asked Richard Hamlin of Hamlin Cody, a California based law firm, to provide his perspective. Background: When California legalized marijuana […]
By Richard Hamlin, Hamlin Cody Simi Valley is a city northwest of Los Angeles.It prohibited parking mobile billboards on city streets unless they also qualified as “authorized emergency or construction-related vehicles.”Bruce Boyer would park mobile billboards throughout the city.The city police either impounded or threatened to impound the billboards. Mr. […]
We received some terrific responses to Managing Tree Issues With A City. Stott Outdoor’s Greg Redeker says you need to be proactive. How to manage tree issues with a city is going to depend upon many factors, including the city’s attitudes and regulations regarding trees and outdoor advertising. Things are […]
Richard Hamlin of the Hamlin Cody Law Firm comments on yesterday’s post on the perils of development clauses. By Richard Hamlin, rhamlin@hamlinlaw.com For the development clause, require objective evidence. That is, no take down without a permit for plans that show the board cannot remain. Even then, if the take […]
By Richard Hamlin, Hamlin Cody Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed Constitutional claims against enforcement of a billboard ordinance. Citizens for Free Speech rented land from Michael Shaw. The purpose: to display political messages on billboards. Alameda County determined that the billboards violated […]
