The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider the scope of its 2015 ruling that the City of Austin says is being used as a “wrecking ball” against local regulations.
The court’s ruling in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, struck down content-based sign regulations. The “decision has resulted in a staggering onslaught of lawsuits against local governments,” seeking “to invalidate everything from sign codes and panhandling ordinances to wage equity laws and robo-call regulations,” a friend-of-the-court brief told the justices in urging them to take up the case.
Here, Austin claims Reed was used to invalidate sign regulations even though ...