United States Fourth Circuit

In a case challenging the constitutionality of a city's sign ordinance, the district court's dismissal of the complaint is affirmed, where: 1) the sign ordinance was content neutral on its face; 2) as applied to the plaintiff, the sign ordinance was a restriction on commercial speech; 3) the sign ordinance satisfied intermediate scrutiny and was not an impermissible content-based restriction on the plaintiff's speech; 4) the sign ordinance was not unconstitutionally vague; and 5) the city's provision for allowing special exceptions did not operate as an unlawful prior restraint on speech, but rather met the standards required of content-neutral licensing regulations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2012
• Published 05/22/2012

Judges

• Diaz

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Peller Frommer, Carol Winfield McCoskrie