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Private rights of action, overtime pay, and the constitutionality of a billboard tax

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I suspect one of the justices wrote a draft separate opinion that was sufficiently persuasive to shake loose the necessary votes for a grant. Baltimore, Maryland, and Cincinnati, Ohio, like many cities, have municipal excise taxes on “outdoor advertising” — essentially, a business tax on rental billboard advertising space.

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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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The decision was noteworthy not only because it struck down the New York law, which mirrored similar restrictions in California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, but for its methodology. And when the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case on June 23, Roberts was on board.

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