The State - News from May 3, 1985
Federal law prohibits the state from controlling billboards on Indian reservations, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously. Caltrans contended that billboards placed along Interstate 10 on the Morongo Indian Reservation near Palm Springs were in violation of California’s Outdoor Advertising Act. A Superior Court judge and the 4th District Court of Appeal agreed. But they were overturned by the higher court, which rejected the state’s argument that the 1965 federal Highway Beautification Act authorized state regulation of billboards on Indian reservations.
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