NATIONAL ADVERTISING CO. v. CITY OF ORANGE

Nos. 86-6552, 87-5739.

861 F.2d 246 (1988)

NATIONAL ADVERTISING COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF ORANGE, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Ferguson and Larry J. Roberts, Ferguson, Praet & Sherman, Orange, Cal.; Bradley C. Withers, Cotkins, Collins & Franscell, Los Angeles, Cal., Furman B. Roberts, City Atty., Orange, California, for defendants-appellants.

Gary S. Mobley and Stephen F. Dial, Case, Schroeder, Knowlson, Mobley & Burnett, Newport Beach, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWNING, FLETCHER and POOLE, Circuit Judges.


JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

National Advertising applied for permits to erect billboards in the City of Orange, California. The City denied the applications, and stipulates it did so "solely because of the provisions of the Sign Ordinance prohibiting off-site signs."

Orange City's Sign Ordinance bars throughout the City "general or billboard advertising signs," defined as "sign[s] which direct[ ] attention to a business, commodity, industry or other...

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