United States of America, Amicus Curiae
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General
The United States filed an amicus brief in this case because of the constitutional issues involved. Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., was nominated to be solicitor general by President Barack Obama on January 26, 2011, and was sworn in on June 9, 2011.The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 22, 2014. The court of appeals erred in upholding Respondents’ sign ordinance, which would be unconstitutional under strict or intermediate scrutiny. The Court should hold that intermediate scrutiny applies in the particular context of a sign-regulation scheme premised solely…
