Tag: tennessee

Billboard Campaign Attempts to Solve TN Murder Case

Ike Wingate of Wingate Media is organizing a digital billboard campaign to solve a murder case in Tennessee.  Insider talked with Wingate. Ike, what case are you trying to solve? A good friend and all around great man was murdered at his home 2 weeks ago. His name was Jim […]

Ken Klein’s Top 10 Out of Home Stories for 2020

By Ken Klein, EVP – Government Affairs, OAAA 1. Out of Home media was considered essential business State shutdown orders included lists of essential businesses that could/should continue to operate, such as this Executive Order from Connecticut’s Governor Ned Lamont: New York State, responding to a query from Lamar Advertising […]

Thomas Wins $690,000 in Legal Fees

Remember William Thomas, the man who successfully challenged Tennessee’s sign code and forced the Tennessee legislature to pass a sign code revision to moot the challenge.  The Tennessee Star reports a court has ordered the Tennessee to pay $690,000 in Thomas’s legal fees.  Thomas was represented by the Institute for […]

Supreme Court Declines to Review Thomas Case

The US Supreme Court declined to review the ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that Tennessee’s billboard law was unconstitutional.   The ruling invalidated Tennessee’s sign code.  On June 25, 2020 Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee signed legislation to revise Tennessee’s sign rules to fix the […]

Tennessee Gov Signs Fix to Billboard Law

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed legislation (HB 2255) which moots a pending constitutional challenge to the State’s billboard control act. The Tennessee House voted unanimously to approve the legislation on June 11; the state Senate passed the bill 31-0 on June 4. In 2017, a federal judge in Memphis […]

Tennessee Approves Revised Law For Billboards

By OAAA Tennessee’s General Assembly has passed legislation intended to remedy a pending constitutional challenge to the State’s billboard control act. The bill goes to Governor Bill Lee. The Tennessee House voted unanimously to approve the legislation on June 11; the state Senate passed the bill 31-0 on June 4. […]

Tennessee files Thomas v Bright Petition with Supreme Court

By Kerry Yoakum, VP of Government Affairs, OAAA Last week the State of Tennessee’s Solicitor General filed a Petition to the Supreme Court to take the case that challenges the constitutionality of Tennessee’s Billboard Control Act (Thomas v. Bright). The pace of Supreme Court action is likely to be impacted […]

Sign Law Fix Passes Tennessee House but stalls in Senate.

March 20 6:14am  Update.  Insider has learned that the last night the Tennessee Senate recessed without voting on legislation to fix Tennessee’s sign law.  The bipartisan senate bill was crowded out by last minute efforts to pass a budget and recess amid coronavirus concerns.  The Senate will consider the bill […]

Tennessee House Finance committees approve law fix

House bill 2255, a proposed fix to Tennessee’s state sign law, unanimously passed a House Finance Subcommittee and the House Finance Ways and Means Committee and goes to House Rules Committee.  Two key changes were made to the bill. The penalty for an illegal billboard under the State’s sign law […]

TN Sign Law Rewrite Advances in House and Senate

The Tennessee Senate Transportation Safety Committee and House Transportation Committee approved legislation, including out of home industry amendments, to fix Tennessee’s sign law.  Senate Bill 2188  and HB 2255  rewrite the state’s sign law by redefining the term “off-premises device” as “a billboard receiving compensation from any message”.  The change […]