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July 10, 2010 ( Volume 41 No. 13 Zoning Bulletin <br />First Amendment —City bans certain types of <br />billboards and signs, but allows exceptions to <br />those bans <br />Advertiser challenges bans as unconstitutional in violation of <br />the First Amendtnent <br />Citation: World Wide Rush, LLC v. City of Los Angeles, 2010 WL <br />2089520 (9th Cir. 2010) <br />The Ninth U.S. Circuit has jurisdiction over Alaska, Arizona, Cali- <br />fornia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and <br />Washington. <br />NINTH U.S. CIRCUIT (CALIFORNIA) (05/26/10)—This case in- <br />volved a challenge to ordinances regulating billboard signs. <br />The Background/Facts: World Wide Rush, LLC and Insite Outdoor <br />Works LA (collectively "WWR") were lessors of advertising space. <br />WWR brought an action against the City of Los Angeles (the "City"). <br />Their action alleged that City ordinances governing billboard signs vi- <br />olated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. More <br />specifically, WWR challenged the content -neutral provisions of Chap- '( <br />psewoodN-: <br />$ewcesaatt- � <br />is matenal.n=; <br />ndatn)-�k - "ram' Nt-orm ncernm <br />r a,m 'it. <br />pea}ed,-ThoWeide you w11geii ateand arr,(hoNfrtav� mfor ration <oncermng <br />6JeR matte„sr co&srred, o,..- , tha pui-s -- or7*.L not r ecessa 12 pie area, h'yipersons_,n <br />sz- ..max.. . .e-,.vim :r.rax <br />--- pra-s law inapar cuIarlunsshot; nThep bhshert otengagemrenderinglegal <br />othional adwce andtFii`s`puohca[ion is'nofa substitute.fortheadvice of.an ait <br />jre`legalorother expeftptivtce_ you should'see k`iliesrrvices_gf;a2gmpe_tenti att <br />Zoning Bulletin 's published znd yrighfed_by Thomsoei([eis,=6700ppermD an rive; P.O. Byx, <br />64526'StSPaul-MN 55164-0526.-'Forsubscription; inforrpation call (800) 2292084,'tor write West. <br />= credit Oder Processing, 620 Opperman Drive PO Box 64833, St. Paul, Iv7N 55164-9753. <br />POSTMASTER Send address changes to, Zoning Bulletin, 610 Opperman Drive P.O. Box 64526 St <br />Paul, MN 55164-0526. • - ' - - - - <br />2 <br />WEST© <br />610 Opperman Drive • P.O. Box 64526 • St. Paul, MN 55164-0526 <br />1-800-229-2084 • email: west.customerservice@thomsonreuters.com • west.thomson.comIquinlan <br />ISSN 0514-7905 • ® 2010 Thomson Reuters. All Rights Reserved. " <br />Quinlan" is a Thomson Reuters brand. <br />© 2010 Thomson Reuters <br />88 <br />