Real Estate & Property Law

Ind. Law - Plain old-fashioned billboards and digital billboards
Plain old-fashioned billboards. This ILB entry from January 19. 2008, headed "Billboards will be history" - agreement filed Friday in Superior Court", began:See this ILB entry from May 3, 2006 on the denial of the petition for rehearing in Metropolitan...

"Vermont celebrates 40 billboard-free years"
From AdFreak: This year marks the 40th anniversary of Vermont?s landmark billboard law, which prohibits roadside ads all across the Green Mountain State, allowing the green and the mountains to shine through...

Billboards publicize Branson Perry case in St. Joe
Perry is a young man who disappeared several years ago from Skidmore, Mo. Lamar Advertising has donated a couple of billboards in St. Joseph to help publicize his story. For more information, there's an entire site here devoted to the...

Vermont Traffic Courts
I got motivated and entered all the traffic courts in Vermont in the past week or so. Not too many of them. Vermont has fourteen counties. Each county has two courts -- District Court and Superior Court...

Naked Blue M&Ms and Endorsements
What better way to dive back into regular blogging than to discuss the Info/Law implications of a naked blue anthropomorphized M&M in Times Square? A recent decision by Judge Denny Chin in New York federal court involved two billboards in Times Square advertising M&M candies...

Taking Stand Against Dont Ask, Dont Tell, VT Law School Bars Military
The Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont. (Credit: Associated Press/Toby Talbot) How much does it cost a law school to bar military recruiters from campus? If you’re the dean of the Vermont Law School, whose endowment is about $14 million, you may be denied federal research money to the tune of $300,000 to $500,000...

Damaged Billboards
Lamar Advertising pays $35,000 settlement after violating permit laws.