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Article: Week in Review - Legal Edition
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2009
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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 ...