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echo: god.and.gov
to: Robert G Lewis
from: Bob Ackley
date: 2003-03-06 09:04:46
subject: Freedom of Speech?

Replying to a message of Robert G Lewis to Richard Gauszka:

 RGLr.g.lewis{at}verizon.net>

 RGL> I'm not defending this action but it probably is  legal. A Mall is
 RGL> private property and by refusing to leave he could be subject to
 RGL> trespassing laws. Personally if I lived close I think I'd start
 RGL> visiting the mall daily, with friends, wearing the T Shirts or some
 RGL> other sign.

I believe the courts have held that shopping malls are places of public
gathering, and may not refuse to admit people who want to hand out leaflets
for political or social purposes.  Something to that effect, anyway.

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