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METROMEDIA, INC. v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO

Docket No. L.A. 30782.

32 Cal.3d 180 (1982)

649 P.2d 902

185 Cal. Rptr. 260

METROMEDIA, INC., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO, Defendant and Appellant. PACIFIC OUTDOOR ADVERTISING COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

August 30, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John W. Witt, City Attorney, and C. Alan Sumption, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Appellants.

Walter Wencke, Carter J. Stroud, City Attorney (Alameda), John W. Scanlon, City Attorney (Hayward), Dan Curtin, City Attorney (Walnut Creek), Roy E. June and R.R. Campagna, City Attorneys (Costa Mesa), Harry S. Fenton, Emerson Ryhner and Ronald W. Beals as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Theodore B. Olson, Wayne W. Smith, Hillyer & Irwin, Oscar F. Irwin, Snell & Wilmer, John J. Bouma, Guy G. Gelbron, Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, Joe N. Turner, Cahill, Gordon & Reundel and Floyd Abrams for Plaintiffs and Respondents. Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, Mahlon F. Perkins, Jr., Weil, Guttman & Davis, Gilbert H. Weil, Phillip Tocker, Richman & Garrett, Lionel Richman, Fadem, Berger & Norton, Michael M. Berger, Brundage, Beeson & Pappy, Joseph J. Kaplon, Alex Kozinski, Ronald A. Zumbrun, Thomas E. Hookano and Elleene A. Kirkland as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents.

OPINION

BROUSSARD, J.

The City of San Diego enacted an ordinance which, with certain exceptions, bans erection of off-site billboards1 within the city limits; the ordinance also requires removal of existing off-site billboards after expiration of an amortization period. (San Diego Ord. No. 10795 (New Series).) On motion for summary judgment, the superior court adjudged the ordinance unconstitutional, and...

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