Donnelly Advertising Corp. v. Mayor of Baltimore

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• finding that a municipal ordinance regulating signs under the police power was not an exercise of zoning power \[a]lthough it is within the scope of the zoning power to regulate signs\
• finding that a municipal ordi nance regulating signs under the police power was not an exercise of zoning power “[although it is within the scope of the zoning power to regulate signs”
• holding city’s police power extended to phase-out period for billboards as part of larger “urban renewal projects” that represented “an important government interest . . . unrelated to the suppression of free expression and no greater than essential”
• applying intermediate scrutiny and rational basis tests in holding that ordinance requiring removal of all off-premises signs in urban renewal district did not violate First or Fourteenth Amendments
• ads on billboards are “entitled to some protection by the First Amendment, whether they be of a commercial, political, or charitable nature”
• When the trial court dismissed plaintiffs request for a declaratory judg ment action without a declaration of the parties’ rights, remand for entry of declaratory judgment was appropriate.

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