A Billboard Insider reader asks: We installed a digital billboard. The traffic travels east and west in front of the digital billboard on a freeway. Two buildings were constructed along the freeway. The city required the building owners to plant a greenbelt of trees which will block our digital. Is there […]
My partners Chris and Mike and I are often asked about the situation where a client secures a permit to erect new sign at a conforming site, but he doesn’t build the sign or otherwise finish the work before the permit expires. Then, when the client attempts to renew the […]
In Appeals Court cites Reagan v Austin in Denying Adams Lawsuit Billboard Insider reported on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal decision in Adams Outdoor vs City of Madison, holding that the permission afforded in the Madison Sign Code for digital on-premise signs while denied for off-premise was not content […]
After the 2020 Year of Covid, followed by the Insurance at the Capital and Winter Storm Uri in 2021, 2022 turned out to be a pretty good year for the billboard industry, from a business and legal standpoint. For most of the year, operators and investors enjoyed robust acquisitions of […]
Billboard Insider published an article entitled “A Right of First Refusal Holds Up in Court” its December 14, 2022 edition. As the title suggests, the article reported on the February 24, 2022 decision by the Michigan Court of Appeals in Adams Outdoor Advertising vs Todd Tarr, which upheld the enforcement […]
Billboard Insider published an article in its November 29, 2022 edition on Cannabis and Out of Home-November 2022, including that this issue was on the ballot of several states in last month’s elections. I wrote a May 3, 2021 Billboard Insider article on Cannabis regulations and presented on the regulation […]
Billboard Insider is taking tomorrow off for Thanksgiving. We have lots to be thankful for: To Outfront Media Real Estate Rep Shelli Bergren for being Billboard Insider’s first newsletter subscriber. To Huntington Billboards Kayla Stewart for being Billboard Insider’s most recent and 3,241st newsletter subscriber. To Anna Bager and the […]
How does an out of home attorney celebrate a wedding? On a digital billboard. Billboard Insider received this email from Richard Rothfelder of the Rothfelder and Falick law firm. My son and partner Chris got married to Bianca Saturday in Santa Rosa, where Tom Jackson was kind enough to […]
California out of home attorney Richard Hamlin had this comment on Rothfelder on Unrecorded Leases and Constructive Notice. Early in my OOH career, I asked my client why they did not record their leases. He said it became too much of an administrative burden to deal with requests to release […]
It seems like everyday there’s a new mass shooting, whether its Uvalde, Buffalo, Parkland, Sandy Hook, and on and on. And, just as predictably, there’s more and more talk about gun control legislation. Especially in these tragic times, everybody appears to have an opinion under the Fourth Amendment, namely whether […]
