Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!orb From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Reply to Sevener on Property Rights Message-ID: <1014@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 17:48:34 EST Article-I.D.: whuxl.1014 Posted: Tue Mar 4 17:48:34 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Mar-86 19:21:16 EST References: <1691@bbncca.ARPA> <536@whuts.UUCP> <1636@ihlpg.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 20 Piotr Berman asks: > > By the way, what is the status of the parking lots of shopping plazas, > which are the favorite places in my semi-rural community for people > collecting donations? > > If their status is the same as of the interior of a mall, then I think > that my rights are seriously courtailed. Why should I be forced to > communicate with pamphleteerers only when I am driving, and when > I need to obstruct the trafick to stop my car? > In Bergen County Mall volunteers for a political candidate were threatened with arrest for placing leaflets on cars in the parking lot. Thus mall owners would extend their censorship of free speech not just *inside* the mall itself but to all entrances and the entire parking lot. The New Jersey courts decided that such a threat was an unlawful infringement of the rights to free speech. tim sevener whuxn!orb