On Thursday, 9/11/14, Professor Weinstein participated in a panel discussion on “Regulation of Political Signs” at the Northeast Ohio Municipal Law Directors Association. Other panelists included Todd Hunt, a partner at Walter Haverfield, and Tom Lee, a partner at Taft/Stetinius.
Professor Weinstein discussed the Court’s recent grant of cert in Reed v. Gilbert, AZ, noting that the case provides the Court with an opportunity to resolve a Circuit split on the issue of the proper test for a content-neutral regulation of speech. Professor Weinstein also discussed a recent 6th Circuit case, Wagner v. City of Garfield Heights, which dealt with this same content-neutrality issue in the context of the city’s regulation of political signs.