LAMAR CO. v. MISSISSIPPI TRANSPORTATION COM'N

No. 20-60072.

976 F.3d 524 (2020)

THE LAMAR COMPANY, L.L.C., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The MISSISSIPPI TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

REVISED September 23, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Herbert, Esq. , Ginny Y. Deliman , Hannah Katherine Herrin, Esq. , Taylor, Wellons, Politz & Duhe, A.P.L.C., Madison, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Candice Leigh Rucker , Daniel B Smith , Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Rodney Maurice Love , Attorney, Mississippi Department of Transportation, Jackson, MS, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before King, Stewart, and Southwick, Circuit Judges.


The argument on this appeal, until recently, centered on a Mississippi statute governing the height of roadside billboards. An interstate sign company has insisted the district court erred in holding that the state statute was unambiguous. Belatedly, the state argued that the needed diversity jurisdiction does...

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