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 Free Speech

Insider’s take:  Tennessee got in trouble because the regulations had different sets of rules for commercial/non-commercial signs.  The solution (in Tennessee and Texas) was to make the sign rules dependent on whether compensation is paid to a landowner.   If your state has an antiquated sign code based on on/off premise signs or commercial/non-commercial signs you should be encouraging state officials to adopt the Tennessee or Texas fix.

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