United States Ninth Circuit

The Oregon Motorist Information Act, which prohibits many outdoor advertising signs, is a content-neutral time, place and manner restriction. It does not give state officials unbridled discretion in deciding whether to permit a given expressive activity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/12/2004
• Decided 12/29/2003
• Published 12/29/2003

Judges

• Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Circuit Judge, WARREN J. FERGUSON, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RAYMOND C. FISHER, MARSHA S. BERZON, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan R. Herson, Jacksonville, OR, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Hardy Myers, Attorney General;  Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General;  Janet A. Metcalf, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, OR, for the defendant-appellee.