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U.S. Supreme Court Reed Decision: Direct Impacts on Local Sign Regulation

Client Alert
September 15, 2015

Speaking at today’s Northeast Ohio Law Directors Association monthly meeting, Robert A. Hager, member of the firm Brennan, Manna & Diamond in Akron, will be participating on a panel of experts presenting and analyzing the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, wherein the Court struck down as unconstitutional under the First Amendment the Town’s sign ordinance based on it not being content neutral and, therefore, not surviving strict scrutiny under the Court’s test for non-content neutral regulations. This decision will have major impacts upon local sign ordinances. As part of the panel discussion, Mr. Hager, who represents the City in Wagner v. Garfield Heights, a recent political sign case where the City prevailed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court remanded the case back to the 6th Circuit after the Reed decision for reconsideration by the 6th Circuit in light of the Reed, will be addressing the ruling and its affects going forward.

Today’s meeting is being held at the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, One Cleveland Center, 1375 East 9th Street, Floor 2, Cleveland, Ohio.

For more information about the panel discussion, please contact Robert Hager at rahager@bmdllc.com.

Northeast Ohio Law Directors AssociationU.S. Supreme CourtLocal Sign RegulationReed v. Town of GilbertU.S. Court of Appeals
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