Summit Media, LLC v. City of Los Angeles

SUMMARY

This is the second appeal in a dispute among several outdoor advertising companies and the City of Los Angeles over certain billboards with digital displays. In the first appeal, we affirmed the trial court’s finding that a settlement agreement between two of the companies and the city, allowing the companies to digitize many of their existing billboards, was illegal and void, because a municipal ordinance expressly prohibited “ ‘alterations or enlargements’ ” of such signs. (Summit Media LLC v. City of Los Angeles (2012) 211 Cal.App.4th 921, 924 [ 150 Cal.Rptr.3d 574 ] (Summit Media I).) We also concluded, contrary to the trial court’s judgment, that it was necessary to revoke all digital conversion permits granted under the illegal settlement agreement. (Ibid.) We directed the trial court “to amend its order so that it invalidates all digital conversion permits issued by the city to real parties under the settlement agreement.” (Id. at pp. 941-942.)

The trial court, after hearings, promptly amended its order, declaring the digital conversion permits invalid. The trial court’s order also identified the signs at issue, and ordered the immediate discontinuation…