Legal Opinion
RTM Media, L.L.C. v. City of Houston
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 28, 2009No. 08-20701PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
RTM Media appeals a summary judgment for the City of Houston. We affirm.
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Houston’s sign code threatens to eliminate most of the fifty-nine billboards owned by RTM, an outdoor advertising company. The city sued in state court, accusing RTM of violating the sign code and being a public nuisance; RTM then sued in federal court, alleging that the code violates the First Amendment and that it cannot be enforced against billboards that have been separately licensed by the state.
RTM says that the First Amendment prohibits the sign code’s disparate treatment of…
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