United States Eleventh Circuit

Award of nominal damages to plaintiff, in case involving denial of applications to construct billboards, is affirmed as defendant city's ordinance regarding billboards impermissibly discriminated based on the content of speech, and the violation inheres in the very section of the ordinance used to deny plaintiff's permits.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/27/2006
• Published 09/27/2006

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, BIRCH and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Philip G. Piggott, J. Bentley Owens, III, Starnes & Atchison LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellant., Edward Adam Webb, G. Franklin Lemond, Jr., The Webb Law Group, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.