United States Ninth Circuit

In a commercial free speech First Amendment case, summary judgment for plaintiff and an award of attorneys' fees is affirmed where a city's sign ordinance, which prohibits the use of portable signs, impermissibly discriminates against the commercial speech rights of businesses within the city in a content-based manner more extensive than necessary to serve its legitimate governmental interests.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2006
• Decided 09/15/2006
• Published 09/15/2006

Judges

• Before RICHARD C. TALLMAN and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and MARILYN L. HUFF, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• J. Zachary Lell, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-appellants., Steven M. Simpson, Arlington, VA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.