Justices deny free-speech challenge to Baltimore’s billboard tax
Baltimore can continue to tax commercial billboard operators.
Billboard firm hopes Ohio case helps high court challenge to Baltimore tax
A company mounting a constitutional challenge to Baltimore’s tax on commercial billboard operators hopes a recent Ohio high court decision striking down a similar Cincinnati assessment will convince the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its claim that the Maryland city’s tax violates the freedoms of speech and the press. In papers filed with the justices […]
Baltimore urges Supreme Court to reject billboard tax challenge
Baltimore’s tax on commercial billboard operators does not violate their constitutional right to free speech as the assessment applies regardless of the messages they post, the city argued last week in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to decline to hear an operator’s First Amendment challenge to the tax. Baltimore’s filing with the justices followed Clear […]