United States Ninth Circuit

A preliminary injunction, enjoining the city from implementing ordinances that provide for the inspection of off-site billboards and the assessment of a fee to cover the cost of that inspection, is vacated where it is unlikely that the advertising companies will prevail on their First Amendment claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/07/2003
• Decided 08/15/2003
• Published 08/15/2003

Judges

• Before:  SILVERMAN, W. FLETCHER, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael L. Klekner, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Richard B. Kendall, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.