United States Second Circuit
LONG ISLAND BD. OF REALTORS, INC. v. INC. VILLAGE OF MASSAPEQUA PARK, 01-7329
When a local entity-s regulation of the size, placement, and number of commercial signs placed on residential property, and prohibition of off-site commercial advertising, directly advance the entity's goals of promoting aesthetics and safety, such regulations are permissible means of regulating commercial speech.
Appellate Information
- Argued 10/22/2001
- Decided 01/25/2002
- Published 01/25/2002
Judges
- OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge., Before FEINBERG, OAKES and F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Second Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Howard W. Goldson, Melville, N.Y. (Goldson, Nolan Associates, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant., (Laurene K. Janik, Ralph W. Holmen, Finley P. Maxson, National Association of Realtors, Chicago, IL), for Amicus Curiae in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.
- For Appellees:
- John M. Spellman, Garden City, N.Y. (Spellman Walsh Rice Schure & Markus, LLP, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee.