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NATIONAL ADVERTISING CO. v. TOWN OF NIAGARA

No. 1479, Docket 91-7117.

942 F.2d 145 (1991)

NATIONAL ADVERTISING COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TOWN OF NIAGARA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 15, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myron D. Cohen, New York City (Michael R. Shebelskie, Hunton & Williams, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

F. Warren Kahn, Niagara Falls, New York (Michael J. Cuddy, James Robert Pigot, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before KEARSE, MAHONEY and SNEED, Circuit Judges.

SNEED, Circuit Judge:

This is a First Amendment case in which a billboard company challenges a town's sign ordinance. The district court held that the ordinance violated the First Amendment by elevating commercial speech over noncommercial speech and by impermissibly favoring certain types of noncommercial speech over others based on content. The court then attempted to save the statute by excising the unconstitutional elements. We agree that the ordinance violates...

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