Signs, Sign Waving, and the First Amendment

This story out of Baltimore County is particularly interesting:

A federal judge struck down yesterday Baltimore County regulations on political campaign signs in yards, saying the law violated the right to freedom of speech.

The ruling could affect laws in other parts of the Baltimore region, where many local governments have restrictions similar to those passed by the Baltimore County Council in December.

U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sided with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, which filed a lawsuit against Baltimore County after council members passed a law restricting when official campaign signs can be displayed on residential properties.

"I'm not suggesting that Baltimore County is attempting to restrict a certain viewpoint," Blake said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. But she found that the county's law violated free-speech rights because it is based on the content of a sign.

The law applies only to signs of officially filed political campaigns.

"A political sign is an important method of expressing support for a candidate," said Blake, adding that there was significant visual effect gained by seeing "rows and rows" of signs in people's yards for one candidate or another.

Now that the Federal courts have weighed in on the side of Free Speech, how will this impact the recently signed law, led by hypocritical Sign Waver John Leopold, that prohibits sign waving along the side of roadways in Anne Arundel County? Does this mean that free speech will be upheld and that sign waving, the only reason that Leopold has ever been elected to office, will remain a Constitutionally protected component of politicking in Anne Arundel County?