National Advertising Company v. City of Orange

How courts have described this case

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• holding “only that the City cannot analyze the content of outdoor noncommercial messages to determine whether they are allowed, and if so where”
• holding ordinance unconstitutional when exemptions to ordinance’s restrictions depend upon content of noncommercial messages.
• refusing to limit ordinance's ban to off-site commercial signs when plain language of ordinance applied to all speech in off-site signs
• applying content-based test to exemptions for memorial tablets or plaques, real estate and construction signs, open house signs, and traffic and safety signs
• applying content-based test to exemptions for memorial tablets or plaques, real estate and construction signs, open house signs, and traffic and safety signs
• refusing to limit ordinance’s ban to off-site commercial signs when plain language of ordinance applied to all speech in off-site signs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).