Legal Opinion
Thomas v. Schroer
District Court, W.D. Tennessee
Decided March 31, 2017No. 13-cv-02987-JPM-cgcPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER & MEMORANDUM FINDING BILLBOARD ACT AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL, CONTENT-BASED REGULATION OF SPEECH
JON P. McCALLA, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE
This action concerns alleged First Amendment violations that occurred when agents of the State of Tennessee (“the State”) sought to remove Plaintiff William H. Thomas’s noncommercial billboard pursuant to the Billboard Regulation and Control Act of 1972 (“Billboard Act”), Tennessee Code Annotated §§ 54-21-101, et seq. For the reasons stated below, the Court finds the Billboard Act is an unconstitutional, content-based regulation of speech. United…
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