United States Ninth Circuit

In a First Amendment action to enjoin the enforcement of certain Los Angeles billboard regulations, summary judgment for plaintiffs is reversed where: 1) the city's exceptions to the "Freeway Facing Sign Ban" did not undermine the city's asserted interests in enacting the Ban; and 2) the city council's authority to create exceptions to the "Supergraphic and Off-Site Sign Bans" was a permissible aspect of its inherent legislative discretion.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/10/2009
• Decided 05/26/2010
• Published 05/26/2010

Judges

• Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT, STEPHEN S. TROTT and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip R. Recht and Andrew T. Kugler of Mayer Brown, LLP (Los Angeles, CA) for amicus curiae Community Redevelopment Association, LLC., Michael Jenkins and Gregg Kovacevich of Jenkins & Hogin, LLP (Manhattan Beach, CA) for amicus curiae League of California Cities., Luis Li, Allison B. Stein, and Jenny M. Jiang of Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP (Los Angeles, CA) for amicus curiae Van Wagner Communications.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carmen A. Trutanich, Rockard J. Delgadillo, Jeri L. Burge, Kenneth T. Fong, Tayo A. Popoola, and Michael J. Bostrom of the Office of the City Attorney (Los Angeles, CA) for defendant-appellant City of Los Angeles., Rex S. Heinke, Michael C. Small, L. Rachel Helyar, Maria Ellinikos, and Christopher Blanchard of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP (Los Angeles, CA) and Paul E. Fisher of the Law Offices of Paul E. Fisher (Newport Beach, C. CA) for plaintiffs-appellees World Wide Rush, LLC, et al., Gary S. Mobley of Case, Knowlson & Jordan, LLP (Newport Beach, CA) for plaintiffs-appellees Sky Tag, Inc., et al.