Homer Township v. Billboards by Johnson, Inc

In this interlocutory appeal, we granted defendant leave to appeal a partial grant of summary disposition, in which the trial court held that the Highway Advertising Act (HAA), MCL 252.301 et seq., did not preempt two of plaintiffs billboard ordinances. One ordinance prohibited “cross-reader” billboards, which are two-sided billboards displaying advertising to highway traffic traveling in both directions. Defendant added a second face to an existing billboard, contrary to the permit issued by plaintiff, in the belief that plaintiffs ban on cross-reader billboards violated the HAA. Flaintiff…