Court Opinion

ID: 9853587
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:50:50.955155+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:51.936388
License: Public Domain

CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
I concur in Parts I, II, III.A, and III.B of the majority opinion. I also concur in Parts III.C.1, III.C.2, and III.C.4, but I dissent from Part III.C.3 because I conclude that Outdoor Media does not have standing to raise a facial challenge to the regulation of noncommercial speech.
*908Article III standing requires (1) an injury in fact, (2) a causal connection between the injury and the defendant’s conduct, and (3) redressability. Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560-62, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992). Outdoor Media cannot establish that it was injured by Beaumont’s former treatment of noncommercial speech. See Get Outdoors II, LLC, v. City of San Diego, 506 F.3d 886, 892 (9th Cir.2007) (“Get Outdoors II cannot leverage its injuries under certain, specific provisions to state an injury under the sign ordinance generally.”).
Outdoor Media’s conditional use permit application was denied based on Beaumont’s concerns for visual blight and unrelated advertising in close proximity to an anticipated new commercial development. Beaumont’s decision was not based on the content of messages that Outdoor Media would have posted had its conditional use permits been granted, nor could it. Outdoor Media erects its billboard structure on leased property and then leases its billboard advertising space to the public. Its application for the conditional use permits did not contain the content of any messages. Indeed, message content was unknown when Outdoor Media applied for the permits because it was yet to be determined by Outdoor Media’s future lessees.
In sum, Outdoor Media cannot establish that it was injured by the provision of Beaumont’s former ordinance regulating noncommercial speech. Accordingly, I would affirm the district court’s dismissal of Outdoor Media’s complaint in its entirety-