Legal Opinion
Dawn Brown v. Town of Cary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 22, 2013No. 11-1480PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge DIAZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge COGBURN joined.
OPINION
DIAZ, Circuit Judge:
The Town of Cary, North Carolina (the “Town”), appeals the district court’s invalidation of its municipal sign ordinance as it applied to resident William David Bowden (“Bowden”). The district court held that the ordinance was a content based constraint on Bowden’s First Amendment rights. We disagree. Because the ordinance regulates speech for reasons independent of content, it is a content neutral restriction subject to intermediate scrutiny.…
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