June 2016

Municipalities cannot regulate political content of signs

In the 2015 case of Reed v. Town of Gilbert, 135 S.Ct. 2218 (2015), the Court struck down a local ordinance that banned “ideological signs” that “communicat[e] a message or ideas.” The ordinance also limited “political signs” to election season and limited the times when plaintiff church was allowed to post “directional signs” bearing the name of the church and the time and location of the next service. The Court...

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Anticompetitive covenant in shopping center lease broadly construed

Following Florida law, the Eleventh Circuit construed the terms of restrictive covenants in shopping center leases broadly. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. v. Dolgencorp, LLC, 746 F.3d 1008 (11th Cir. 2014). The covenants were part of the leases granted to Winn-Dixie supermarkets and protected it from competition by limiting the ability of...

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