Baldwin Park Free Speech Coalition v. City of Baldwin Park

I. INTRODUCTION

The sole remaining issue in this case, by stipulation of the parties, is whether defendant City of Baldwin Park’s ordinances regulating permanent signs are facially constitutional. On November 18, 2019, plaintiff Baldwin Park Free Speech Coalition ("FSC"), an association that seeks to promote transparency in local government, and one of its members, plaintiff Richard Ehlers, (“Ehlers”) filed this action against the City of Baldwin Park (“the City”) to challenge the constitutionality and prevent the enforcement of the City's amended sign ordinance, Baldwin Park Municipal Code ("BPMC") § 153.170.040 et seq. (the "sign ordinance"). See Dkt. 1 ("Compl."). The City had previously amended its sign ordinance after the district court issued a preliminary injunction on July 10, 2017, in www.RicardoPacheco.com et al v. Baldwin Park City, case number 2:16-cv-09167, restraining the City’s municipal code regulating signs as a violation of the First Amendment. FSC is challenging the current, revised ordinance. Plaintiffs filed a first amended complaint on November 25, 2019. See Dkt. 9 ("FAC"). As in the previous action, the first amended complaint alleges that…