Legal Opinion
Geft Outdoors, LLC v. City of Westfield
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 25, 2019No. 18-3236PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Flaum, Circuit Judge.
GEFT Outdoors, LLC began building a digital billboard on its property in the City of Westfield, Indiana without obtaining or applying for the requisite sign permit. GEFT believed Westfield's relevant sign standards ordinance contains unconstitutional content-based speech restrictions and that this invalidity renders the ordinance nonexistent. GEFT only stopped installing the billboard when a contract attorney for Westfield threatened to arrest GEFT's representatives if the installation work continued. After this confrontation, Westfield and GEFT filed dueling injunction…
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