In a unanimous ruling, the court ruled that the city's ban on aerial advertising is not pre-empted by federal law and violates neither the free speech provisions of the First Amendment nor the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
満場一致の判決で、判決は市の空中広告禁止は連邦法によって専有されず、憲法第一条の言論の自由の規定も、憲法第十四条の公民権の条項も侵さないと決定した。