Article: Week in Review - Legal Edition

Arena billboards can stay

A Baltimore's judge's ruling has ended a five-year legal battle between two of the city's high-profile businessmen over an unlikely issue: billboards. In a decision handed down last month by Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Evelyn Omega Cannon, lawyers for 14 downtown businesspeople led by Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos lost their challenge to a 2003 city law allowing for the construction and display of advertising billboards on the side of the 1st Mariner Arena. The building is home to the Baltimore Blast, a professional soccer team owned by banker Edwin F. Hale. The roots of the dispute go back to March 2000, when the city placed a moratorium on new general ...

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