Tag: William Thomas

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 […]

The Sign Which Created the Fuss in Tennessee

  See the billboard in the picture?  It started the Thomas v Bright challenge to Tennessee’s billboard rules.  The site is a vacant lot next to I-40 in Memphis Tennessee.  William Thomas tried to get a permit for a billboard on the site, was denied because of spacing restrictions and […]