HARP ADVERTISING ILL. INC. v. VILLAGE OF CHICAGO RIDGE

No. 93-1103.

9 F.3d 1290 (1993)

HARP ADVERTISING ILLINOIS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VILLAGE OF CHICAGO RIDGE, ILLINOIS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 19, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara J. Gosselar (argued), Kenneth T. Kubiesa, Kubiesa & Power, Westmont, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Edward M. Kay, James T. Ferrini, Sonia V. Odarczenko, Susan Condon (argued), Imelda Terrazino, Clausen, Miller, Gorman, Caffrey & Witous, Chicago, IL, Robert B. Baal, Bryan J. O'Connor, Baal & O'Connor, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellee.

Before FLAUM and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Harp Advertising wants to erect a billboard in Chicago Ridge, Illinois. Portions of the village's zoning code got in the way; so did provisions of its sign code. Harp filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, contending that the ordinances violate the first amendment, applied to states (and villages) by the fourteenth. Magistrate Judge Lefkow recommended that the district court declare the sign code unconstitutional but sustain the zoning...

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