Bock v. Westminster Mall Co.

We granted certiorari to review Bock v. Westminster Mall Co., 797 P.2d 797 (Colo. App.1990), in which the court of appeals held that individual members of “The Pledge of Resistance” did not have a protected right to distribute leaflets in the common areas of Westminster Mall *56(“Mall”), a privately-owned commercial and retail center. The issue here is:

Whether Article II, Section 10 of the Colorado Constitution prevents the private owner of an enclosed shopping mall from excluding citizens engaged in nonviolent political speech from the common areas of the mall? 1

For the reasons stated below, we…