By: Derek Hawkins//May 27, 2019//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: GEFT Outdoors, LLC. v. City of Westfield
Case No.: 18-3236
Officials: FLAUM, KANNE, and SCUDDER, Circuit Judges.
GEFT Outdoors, LLC began building a digital billboard on its property in the City of Westfield, Indiana without obtaining or applying for the requisite sign permit. GEFT believed Westfield’s relevant sign standards ordinance contains unconstitutional content‐based speech restrictions and that this invalidity renders the ordinance non‐ existent. GEFT only stopped installing the billboard when a contract attorney for Westfield threatened to arrest GEFT’s representatives if the installation work continued. After this confrontation, Westfield and GEFT filed dueling injunction motions. GEFT asked for an injunction preventing Westfield from violating its due process rights; Westfield asked the district court to enjoin GEFT from installing the billboard pending the outcome of this litigation. The district court denied GEFT’s motion and granted Westfield’s motion, and GEFT filed this interlocutory appeal. We affirm.
Affirmed