New York Court of Appeals
Suffolk Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., Respondent-Appellant v. Theodore O. Hulse, Constituting the Town…
December 21, 197743 N.Y.2d 483
Summary
The New York Court of Appeals upheld the Town of Southampton's zoning ordinance banning nonaccessory billboards, finding it a permissible time, place, and manner regulation of commercial speech that is reasonably related to aesthetic goals and thus a valid exercise of the police power. Justice Fuchsberg dissented, arguing the ban is an unconstitutional suppression of speech.