Legal Opinion
Snatchko v. Westfield llC
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 11, 2010No. C059985PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CANTIL-SAKAUYE, J.
In this case we conclude the rules of a large regional shopping mall that prohibit peaceful, consensual, spontaneous conversations between strangers in common areas of the mall about topics that are not related to the activities of the mall, its tenants or the noncommercial sponsored activities of the mall or its tenants are content-based rules that do not withstand a strict scrutiny analysis. The rules are unconstitutional on their face under article I, section 2 of the California Constitution, the California constitutional provision which guarantees the right to…
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