San Diego's general ban on signs carrying noncommercial advertising is invalid under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices
William J. Brennan Jr.·Potter Stewart Byron White·Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun·Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist·John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Plurality
White, joined by Stewart, Marshall, Powell; Stevens (parts I–IV)
Concurrence
Brennan, joined by Blackmun
Concurrence
Stevens
Dissent
Burger
Dissent
Rehnquist
Dissent
Stevens (parts V–VII)
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I
Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego, 453 U.S. 490 (1981), was a United States Supreme Court case in which it was decided that cities could regulate billboards and that municipal governments could not treat commercialoutdoor advertising more harshly than noncommercial messages.[1][2]
References[]
^Kaplar, Richard T. (2003). The First Amendment and the Media 2003-Free Speech and Free Press Since Sept. 11. Washington, DC: The Media Institute. p. 217.
^Metromedia, Inc. v. San Diego, 453U.S.490 (1981).