silber@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU (03/06/86)
/* Written 4:48 pm Mar 4, 1986 by orb@whuxl.UUCP in uiucdcsp:net.politics */ /* ---------- "Re: Re: Reply to Sevener on Propert" ---------- */ >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 /* End of text from uiucdcsp:net.politics */ I think that there is probably a legal distinction between handing out leaflets and placing them on peoples cars, since the cars are most assuridly private property. Ami Silberman