Supreme Court Upholds Californian Restrictions on Billboard Placement
Oh, Supreme Court…I have have no clue what you guys are playing at. What you give to the public with one hand, you take away with the other. Three days after their ruling to screw over American voters, the Supreme Court decided not to challenge a lower court’s ruling that California can have sections of the highway billboard free. California has had this policy in place for a very long time, where sections of the highway labeled “landscaped highway” are mostly free from billboards. As a result, I bet you can enjoy the fantastic California landscape a lot more. Hey, who knows, maybe there are less accidents because people are paying more attention to their surroundings. The story is that Nano Maldonado lived by one of these areas and wanted to put a billboard on his roof but was told he couldn’t. Over the past 10+ years he’s been challenging the policy, moving up the California court system pushing his luck only to be struck down by the Supreme Court recently. I don’t know what to think about the Supreme Court. And this isn’t a victory for people who want to see less ads, it’s a defeat of an advance of ads. Nothing’s going to change. But for right now, I’d say that’s pretty good.
