Meredith Outdoor Advertising, Inc. v. Iowa Department of Transportation, Office of Right of Way

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting a “rule must not exceed or limit the scope of the authority granted by the enabling legislation”
• “By permitting only customary maintenance, the obvious purpose of the beautification act was to eventually weed out nonconforming signs”
• changes to signs too significant to qualify as customary maintenance so nonconforming use terminated
• increase in billboard’s size and number of posts supporting sign was ‘‘too extensive to constitute de minimis changes or a mere continuation of the existing sign’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).