Combined Communications Corp. v. City of Bridgeton

Defendant, City of Bridgeton, appeals summary judgment in favor of plaintiff, Gan-nett Outdoor Company, a division of Combined Communications Corporation, on Count I of its petition for injunction. Gan-nett challenged a Bridgeton Ordinance on three separate grounds. It alleged: (1) the Missouri Billboards Act, §§ 226.500 to 226.600, RSMo.Cum.Supp.1993 (the Act) preempts Bridgeton’s Ordinance as applied to billboards;1 (2) the Ordinance violates Article I, Section 8 of the Missouri Constitution and the First Amendment of the United States Constitution; and (3) the Ordinance is prohibitive and…