Fuller v. Fiedler

The only matter before us is the defendants’ appeal from the judgment which declared the above-recited regulations to be unconstitutional. The plaintiffs did not participate in this appeal.

In 1958, Congress included in the Federal-Aid Highway Act provisions which were designed to encourage and assist the states in the control of outdoor advertising on the national system of interstate and defense highways. Public Law 85-767, 72 U. S. Stat. at L., p. 904 (1958), 23 U. S. C. sec. 131 (1958). The act announced that it was in the public interest to encourage and assist the states in controlling…