United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 alleging that defendant-city's now-repealed and replaced billboard ordinance violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments, dismissal of the action is reversed in part and remanded for consideration of whether: 1) the old ordinance created an unconstitutional preference for commercial over noncommercial speech or impermissibly distinguished among categories of noncommercial speech; and 2) such alleged infirmity gives rise to plaintiff's damages claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2007
• Decided 11/01/2007
• Published 11/01/2007

Judges

• Before:  CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges, and LYLE E. STROM, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey A. Tidus and Henry H. Gonzalez, Baute & Tidus, Los Angeles, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randal R. Morrison, Sabine and Morrison, San Diego, CA, for the appellee.