San Francisco commercial ad restriction survives First Amendment challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a review of a First Amendment challenge of San Francisco’s ban on outdoor advertising that only allowed signs at the advertisers’ business addresses. A federal district judge ruled that the Supreme Court ruling that overturned an Arizona town’s limits on church ads did not apply in that it is permissible under the Constitution to place greater limits on commercial speech. The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of appeals upheld the district court ruling. (San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 2018, by Bob Egelko)

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