Legal Opinion
Summit Media LLC v. City of Los Angeles
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 10, 2012No. B220198PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*924Opinion
GRIMES, J.
SUMMARY
This is a dispute among several outdoor advertising companies and the City of Los Angeles over certain billboards with digital displays, and over the city’s authority to settle with two of those companies on terms that permitted them to digitize many of their existing billboards, even though a municipal ordinance expressly prohibited “alterations or enlargements” of such signs. A third company filed this suit for a writ of mandate ordering the city to set aside the settlement agreement and withdraw all permits issued under it. The trial court found the settlement…
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