Case Summary:

In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, plaintiffs Multimedia Technologies, Inc., Geoffrey Anderson, and Peach Hospitality of Georgia, LLC sued the City of Atlanta, Georgia, alleging that the City’s efforts to force removal of two long‑existing billboard signs and to enforce related arrest citations violated their rights under the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, including free speech and due process protections. The suit arose after Atlanta, having previously permitted the signs under its 1982 sign code and later amended its code in 2015, demanded removal of Multimedia’s nonconforming signs, and when Multimedia refused, the City issued arrest citations to Multimedia’s president and Peach Hospitality’s registered agent, prompting the plaintiffs to seek declaratory and injunctive relief ...