October 30, 2007 Ninth Circuit Decisions
The Ninth Circuit issued no published decisions on October 29.
On October 30, 2007, the Ninth Circuit issued one new published decisions and amended a previously issued opinion:
In Jordison v. Keisler, the Ninth Circuit amended the opinion filed on September 4, 2007. The outcome is unchanged.
In Desert Outdoor v. City Of Oakland, the Ninth Circuit upheld an Oakland ordinance regulation outdoor advertising. The ordinance banning freeway-visible advertising signs applied only to commercial speech; the fact that it except time and temperature signs did not transform it to apply to noncommercial speech. The District Court had found the time and temperature exception unconstitutional, and severed. Oakland had not appealed that decision, but this opinion makes clear time and temperature signs are not commercial speech. Oakland had deleting a potentially constitutionally invalid provision from the ordinance prior to the court’s ruling, rendering a challenge of it moot.
