United States Third Circuit

In an action brought by home and business owners who were issued criminal citations by a Pennsylvania city for displaying signage on their property without obtaining permits, a ruling upholding the constitutionality of the city's sign ordinances under which plaintiffs were cited is affirmed as: 1) the district court correctly held that the ordinances are content-neutral and permissible under the First Amendment; 2) it did not err by failing to strike down the ordinances on overbreadth grounds; and 3) an ordinance was not unconstitutionally vague.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/12/2006
• Decided 05/03/2007
• Published 05/03/2007

Judges

• Before: FISHER and CHAGARES, Circuit Judges, and BUCKWALTER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip B. Friedman, Ambrose, Friedman & Weichler, Erie, PA, Witold J. Walczak (Argued), American Civil Liberties Union, Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard A. Lanzillo (Argued), Knox, McLaughlin, Gornall & Sennett, Erie, PA, for Appellee.