101937P.pdf   07/13/2011  Neighborhood Enterprises, Inc.  v.  City of St. Louis
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-1937
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Civil rights. Plaintiffs had standing to challenge the
   constitutionality of provisions of the City of St. Louis's zoning code
   which were used to deny their application for a sign permit; challenged
   sign provisions of the zoning code were content-based restrictions, subject
   to strict scrutiny review; the provisions were not narrowly tailed to
   accomplish the City's asserted interests in aesthetics and traffic safety, and
   those interest are not compelling; as a result, the challenged provisions of
   the zoning code violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment;
   because the district court, in upholding the provisions, did not address the
   issue of whether they were severable from the remainder of the code, the
   matter must be remanded to the district court to permit it to address the
   severability issue in the first instance.