Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego

Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego, 453 U.S. 490 (1981), was a United States Supreme Court case in which it was decided that cities could regulate billboards and that municipal governments could not treat commercial outdoor advertising more harshly than noncommercial messages.[1][2]

Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 25, 1981 Decided July 2, 1981
Full case name	Metromedia, Inc., et al. v. City of San Diego, et al.
Citations	453 U.S. 490 (more) 101 S. Ct. 2882; 69 L. Ed. 2d 800
Holding
San Diego's general ban on signs carrying noncommercial advertising is invalid under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Plurality	White, joined by Stewart, Marshall, Powell; Stevens (parts I–IV)
Concurrence	Brennan, joined by Blackmun
Concurrence	Stevens
Dissent	Burger
Dissent	Rehnquist
Dissent	Stevens (parts V–VII)
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

References

1. Kaplar, Richard T. (2003). The First Amendment and the Media 2003-Free Speech and Free Press Since Sept. 11. Washington, DC: The Media Institute. p. 217.
2. Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego, 453 U.S. 490 (1981).

External links

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