United States Fourth Circuit
Covenant Media of S.C. v. City of N. Charleston, 06-1894
In civil rights suit brought by billboard operator challenging constitutionality of sign regulation, summary judgment for defendant city is affirmed over claim that the Sign Regulation was an unconstitutional prior restraint on speech, both facially and as applied, because it did not require the City to make a decision on the its application within a specified period of time (a Freedman procedural safeguard), thereby allowing the City to delay a decision for over 300 days.
Appellate Information
- Decided 07/06/2007
- Published 07/06/2007
Judges
- Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, and TRAXLER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Fourth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- ARGUED: Edward Adam Webb, The Webb Law Group, L.L.C., Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellant. Derk B.K. Van Raalte, IV, Brady Hair Law Offices, North Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Randal R. Morrison, Sabine & Morrison, San Diego, California; Stephanie P. McDonald, Senn, McDonald & Leinbach, L.L.C., Charleston, South Carolina; J. Brady Hair, Brady Hair Law Offices, North Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellee. William D. Brinton, Rogers Towers, P.A., Jacksonville, Florida, for Amicus Supporting Appellee.