Legal Opinion
Advantage Media, LLC v. City of Hopkins, Minn.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 8, 2008No. 07-1441PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Advantage Media (Advantage) submitted permit applications for the construction of four large billboards to the city of Hopkins, Minnesota (“the city”). The city declined to process the applications, and Advantage brought an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that the city’s sign code was unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and that the city violated its constitutional rights by denying the applications. The district court 1 granted Advantage’s motion for a preliminary injunction to halt the enforcement of the sign code, but the trial jury…
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