Court Opinion

ID: 9434145
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:42:22.588615+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:46.612398
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Justice Kennedy,
with whom Justice Scalia joins, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
The obvious overbreadth of the outdoor advertising restrictions suffices to invalidate them under the fourth part of the test in Central Hudson Gas & Elec. Corp. v. Public Serv. Comm'n of N. Y, 447 U. S. 557 (1980). As a result, in my view, there is no need to consider whether the restrictions satisfy the third part of the test, a proposition about which there is considerable doubt. Cf. post, at 583-584 (Thomas, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). Neither are we required to consider whether Central Hudson should be retained in the face of the substantial objections that can be made to it. See post, at 574-582 (opinion of Thomas, J.). My continuing concerns that the test gives *572insufficient protection to truthful, nonmisleading commercial speech require me to refrain from expressing agreement with the Court’s application of the third part of Central Hudson. See, e.g., kh Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island, 517 U. S. 484, 501-504 (1996) (opinion of Stevens, J., joined by Kennedy and Ginsburg, JJ.). With the exception of Part III — B—1, then, I join the opinion of the Court.