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Law of the Land
11th Cir CA Upholds City’s Sign Ordinance That Prohibited the Construction of New Billboards
This post was authored by Lora Lucero, Esq. The Eleventh Circuit upheld the city’s sign regulation against a challenge by an applicant whose applications for permits to erect four signs…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Austin, Texas in Billboard Case, Upholds Off-Premises Sign Regulations
On Thursday, in the case of City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising, a case on which we’ve previously reported, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the City of Austin,…
Religion Clause
Satanic Temple Sues Billboard Company Over Abortion Ritual Ads
The Satanic Temple filed suit last week in an Arkansas federal district court claiming that a billboard advertising company violated the Arkansas Civil Rights Act by refusing to perform under…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
U.S. Supreme Court to Review Austin Billboard Case
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the City of Austin, Texas’s petition for writ of certiorari in a case that may determine the legal fate of states’ and local…
DuetsBlog
Rapala Continues Fishing for Attention
By Steve Baird®
Over the past dozen years, we've been admiring Rapala's annual creative billboard campaign that continues to maintain the same eye-catching look and feel. Love the white canvas, the red stylized…
Long Island Land Use and Zoning
Shinnecock Nation’s Second Sign Sees Renewed State Resistance
Last May, in Commissioner of the State of New York Department of Transportation, et al. v Polite, Index No. 610010/2019, the Suffolk County Supreme Court denied the State's application for a…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Federal Judge Rules Kentucky’s Billboard Act Unconstitutional In Its Entirety
[caption id="attachment_2711" align="alignleft" width="250"] A billboard for Lion's Den (not a truck trailer). Source: i70signshow.com.[/caption] In late April, in a case filed by an adult bookstore challenging the application of…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Pennsylvania’s Billboard Rules Found to Violate First Amendment
[caption id="attachment_2644" align="alignright" width="320"] An Adams Outdoor billboard in Pennsylvania. Source: Adams Outdoor.[/caption] In a case that we’ve reported on previously, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held last week that…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Court Grants Zoning Administrator’s Motion to Dismiss in Michigan Billboard Case
[caption id="attachment_2623" align="alignleft" width="320"] The American Legion in Howell Township. Source: www.whmi.com.[/caption] Two weeks ago, a federal district court granted the motion to dismiss of Joe Daus, the zoning administrator…
Massachusetts Land Use Monitor
The Great Salisbury Billboard Race
A Massachusetts regulation stating that no two digital billboards may be erected within 1,000 feet of one another set up a race between competing billboard companies that owned abutting land.…