Supreme Court of Texas
TEXAS DEP'T OF TRANSP. v. BARBER, 01-0414
The Texas Highway Beautification Act, which precludes plaintiff from displaying a particular billboard on his nonresidential property, is content neutral and constitutes a valid time, place, and manner restriction on plaintiff's right to free speech.
Appellate Information
- Argued 11/14/2002
- Decided 07/03/2003
- Published 07/03/2003
Judges
- Justice ENOCH delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice O'NEILL, Justice JEFFERSON, Justice SCHNEIDER, and Justice WAINWRIGHT joined.
Court
- Supreme Court of Texas
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Howard G. Baldwin, First Assistant Atty. Gen. of Texas, Robert Searls Johnson, Asst. Solicitor General, Julie Caruthers Parsley, Office of the Solicitor General of Texas, Jeffrey S. Boyd, Office of the Attorney General, Austin, Meredith Bishop Parenti, Weil Gotshal & Manges, College Station, John Cornyn, United States Senate, Washington, DC, William Rich Thompson, II, Austin, for Petitioners.
- For Appellees:
- James C. Harrington, Texas Civil Rights Project, Ted Anthony Ross, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sheri Joy Nasya Tolliver, Texas Civil Rights Project, Austin, for Respondent.