Van v. Travel Information Council

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that exemptions in ORS 377.735 are content-based, but not deciding their constitutionality
• “Messages such as ‘Support E.R.A.,’ ‘No Nukes’ or ‘Guns don’t kill people — people kill people’ are banned altogether from the highways.”
• ordinance which contains time limitations on political signs impermissibly restricts the scope of political speech
• political speech afforded maximum protection under First Amendment, but subject to reasonable time, place and manner restrictions
• “[T]he Oregon statute as a whole is not directed to content. Billboards are regulated, and in some cases banned altogether, not because of the messages they convey but because the medium of communication is itself objectionable”
• ban on political billboards held unconstitutional

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).