Just when I thought the often heated debate and endless negative commercials for the midterm elections were finally over, my buddy practically ruined my recent golf game by asking during our round how the Alex Jones defamation verdicts over $1 Billion can be reconciled with the dismissal of Trump’s lawsuit […]
Yesterday Insider reported that a Tennessee Appeals Court upheld a challenge to Tennessee’s out of home advertising rules. Insider talked with out of home attorney Richard Rothfelder about the opinion. Could the Supreme Court take up the case? This Supreme Court has been conservative and protective of First Amendment rights, […]
I found yesterdays article on “New York’s Billboard Barge Conflict” very interesting. And, while I don’t pretend to be an expert in maritime law or New York zoning, this conflict is right up the alley of several cases I’ve handled for the owners of traditional billboards erected originally out of […]
The Chichester School District, et al opinion from the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reported in the January 4 edition of Billboard Insider illustrates the appraisal issues for billboards and the land on which they are situated in two different contexts, namely for ad valorem taxes vs condemnation. This Pennsylvania case […]
I attended, for about the 15th time in a row, the bi-annual OAAA Legal Seminar on November 13 and 14. This year the seminar was held at the Westin New York Times Square, and as usual, it was well attended by billboard attorneys and principals from across the country. And, […]
By now, most of us have read in Billboard Insider and other publications about the US Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Reed vs Town of Gilbert, basically holding that regulatory distinctions based on the content of messages displayed on signs violate the First Amendment. But, what about the more fundamental […]
Insider received a followup question in response to Richard Rothfelder’s article on taxes, foreclosures and billboard easements. Mr Rothfelder agrees with the investor that he should create the easement, sell the property and pay of the taxes. What happens when the new property owner does not pay the taxes and […]
By Richard Rothfelder, Rothfelder and Falick The Texas Transportation Commission has been holding public hearings, considering comments from stakeholders, and otherwise considering amendments to TxDOT’s administrative rules governing federally assisted highways for the last several months. The primary reason cited by TxDOT for the rules amendments was to make them […]
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 […]
