Another brute threat from a billboard lawyer.
We are not making any changes to this post about Sean P. Hart in response to Philip Horgan’s threats. In fact, we reiterate every word.
Horgan claims that these allegations contained in the PEO’s Summary of Allegations merely represent allegations made by IllegalSigns.ca that the PEO’s staff have “re-framed.”
In [...]

In late February, we published a post about Titan Outdoor’s plans to erect a superboard on the roof of 647 College Street.
Julian Porter, who wrote the book “Canadian Libel Practice,” is the tobacco industry’s libel lawyer. He was successful in representing the industry against a web site called De Facto which had the temerity to [...]

“Abro questions the accuracy of some of the information presented on the Illegal Signs website, saying he has documentation that proves at least one allegation the site makes about an illegal Abcon sign is false.”
-Matt Semansky, Marketing Magazine, February 13, 2007
We previously reported that we were threatened with lawsuits by Clear Channel Outdoor, Titan Outdoor [...]

We have distributed the following press relaase in response to this Astral Media press release.
ANOTHER ‘STREET FURNITURE’ BIDDER THREATENS TO SUE ACTIVISTS
ASTRAL’s THREATS COME AFTER TWO CITY COUNCILLORS SLAM CLEAR CHANNEL FOR THREATENING TO SUE
IllegalSigns.ca, a grassroots, community-based advertising industry watchdog, has been threatened with a lawsuit by Astral Media, a bidder in Toronto’s street [...]

The Globe and Mail this morning covered the issue of Clear Channel threatening to sue the Toronto Public Space Committee for filing complaints against illegal billboards by way of a Jeff Grey article and a scathing and brilliant John Barber column who puts the TPSC in the same boat as the Dixie Chicks and John [...]