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 […]
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Out of Home Legal: Constructing a billboard without a permit to block a competitor means big damages
Constructing a billboard without a permit to block a competitor can lead to massive fines. That’s the lesson of Tennison Brothers v William H Thomas, Jr. Yes, that’s the same William H. Thomas who convinced a judge to throw out the state of Tennessee’s sign rules on a first amendment […]