NEW YORK, NY, May 28, 2024 – OUTFRONT Media (NYSE:OUT), one of the largest out of home media companies in North America, has been awarded a new long-term advertising franchise agreement for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”). OUTFRONT has provided advertising services for WMATA since July 2014. Under […]
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Court Busts Bus Line Ban on Religious Ads
A federal appeals court ruled that a local transit authority in Pennsylvania cannot exclude ads that refer to religion because that violates the First Amendment. The County of Lackawanna Transit System’s policy to ban “speech related to religion discriminates based on the basis of viewpoint,” said the US Third Circuit […]
Transit as Free Speech Battleground; Sessions’ DOJ Joins the Fight
Kerry Yoakum, an attorney, is a vice president of the OAAA The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is taking sides in a First Amendment lawsuit challenging transit’s ability to restrict religious ads. In Washington, DC, the Catholic Church has been fighting a losing court battle, which was prompted by the regional […]
















