PENN ADVERTISING v. MAYOR OF BALTIMORE

No. 94-2141.

101 F.3d 332 (1996)

PENN ADVERTISING OF BALTIMORE, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, A Municipal Corporation; Kurt L. Schmoke, in his official capacity as Mayor of Baltimore City; David Tanner, in his official capacity as the General Superintendent of Zoning Administration and Enforcement of Baltimore City, Defendants-Appellees. The American Advertising Federation; The American Association of Advertising Agencies; The Association of National Advertisers, Incorporated; The Outdoor Advertising Association of America, Incorporated; Washington Legal Foundation; The City of Cincinnati, Ohio; The Maryland Congress of Parents & Teachers, Incorporated; The Coalition for Beautiful Neighborhoods; Baltimore City Wide Liquor Coalition for Better Laws and Regulations; City and County of San Francisco; City of San Jose; United States of America, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

November 13, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Michael Rubin, Walter E. Diercks, Jeffrey Harris, Darrin N. Sacks, Rubin, Winston, Diercks, Harris & Cooke, Washington, DC; Andrew L. Frey, Kenneth S. Geller, Gary A. Orseck, H. Thomas Byron, III, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Washington, DC, for Appellant.

Neal M. Janey, City Solicitor, Burton Harry Levin, Principal Counsel, Sandra R. Gutman, Associate Solicitor, Department of Law, Baltimore, MD, for Appellees.

Richard E. Wiley, Lawrence W. Secrest, III, Howard H. Bell, Daniel E. Troy, Luis de la Torre, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae American Advertising Federation, et al.

Mark S. Yurick, Senior Assistant City Solicitor, Office of the City Solicitor, Cincinnati, OH, for Amicus Curiae City of Cincinnati.

Daniel J. Popeo, Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Washington Legal Foundation.

Donald Garner, Professor of Law, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL; The Maryland Congress of Parents & Teachers, Inc., Baltimore, MD, for Amicus Curiae Maryland Congress.

Christopher J. Fritz, Julie Ellen Squire, Thomas C. Dame, Gallagher, Evelius & Jones, Baltimore, MD, for Amici Curiae Coalition for Beautiful Neighborhoods, et al.

Louise H. Renne, City Attorney, Dennis Aftergut, Chief Assistant City Attorney, Barbara Solomon, Deputy City Attorney, John Cooper, Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco, CA; Joan Gallo, City Attorney, George Rios, Assistant City Attorney, San Jose, CA, for Amici Curiae City of San Francisco, et al.

Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Litigation Counsel, Scott R. McIntosh, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States.

Before NIEMEYER and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge HAMILTON joined. Senior Judge BUTZNER wrote a dissenting opinion.

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

On May 13, 1996, The Supreme Court handed down its decision in 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island, ___ U.S. ___, 116 S.Ct. 1495, 134 L.Ed.2d 711 (1996), and shortly thereafter vacated our decision in this case and remanded it to us "for further consideration in light of ...

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