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JOHN DONNELLY & SONS v. CAMPBELL

No. 79-1575.

639 F.2d 6 (1980)

JOHN DONNELLY & SONS, National Advertising Company, and William S. Schaeffer, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. George N. CAMPBELL, Jr., Commissioner of Transportation, State of Maine, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Holme, Denver, Colo., with whom Davis, Graham & Stubbs, Denver, Colo., Donald W. Perkins and Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster, Portland, Maine, were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Cabanne Howard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, Maine, with whom Allan A. Toubman, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Thomas G. Reeves, Counsel, Dept. of Transp., Augusta, Maine, were on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before ALDRICH and BOWNES, Circuit Judges, PETTINE, District Judge.

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

The question before us of the constitutionality of a Maine statute requires the assessment of a number of general societal values against their cost in First Amendment rights. The statute, 23 M.R.S.A. §§ 1901 et seq., is entitled the Maine Traveler Information Services Act, somewhat euphemistically,1 since its principal purpose is to abolish billboards...

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