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Related: About this forumSometimes I get the best Ideas!
Since SCOTUS decided to do away with the buffer zone at Planned Parenthood we can use the same
laws to crowd the front doors of Holly Hobby and interfere with their customers!
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Sometimes I get the best Ideas! (Original Post)
Frosty1
Jul 2014
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Only up to the edge of public property. We could 'counsel' prospective customers from the sidewalk.
Shrike47
Jul 2014
#1
Parking lots and the sidewalk adjacent to stores in a mall/shopping ctr are usually private.
Gormy Cuss
Jul 2014
#5
Yes, the mall would have to block or give permission to its tenants to do so.
Gormy Cuss
Jul 2014
#7
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)1. Only up to the edge of public property. We could 'counsel' prospective customers from the sidewalk.
Trespassing is still trespassing.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)2. Cute, but most HLs are in shopping center with big parking lots
and those lots are a natural buffer against such interference.
Frosty1
(1,823 posts)4. But the sidewalk in front IS public property
So is the parking lot.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)5. Parking lots and the sidewalk adjacent to stores in a mall/shopping ctr are usually private.
The sidewalk out by the public street is where you'd have to be in most cases. Not that it means you shouldn't stand there and protest, just that it's probably a lot further away from the door of the store than the typical distance where abortion protesters are allowed since clinics generally aren't in malls.
Frosty1
(1,823 posts)6. Then the mall would have to block you
Holly Hobby couldn't.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)7. Yes, the mall would have to block or give permission to its tenants to do so.
Either way, there's a good chance that protesters will be escorted back to the public way and be further from the store than the typical anti-abortion protesters are from clinics.
unblock
(54,242 posts)3. the best idea is to find a rich donor willing to pay for a huge parking lot in front of a clinic.
moving the property line out is the best "buffer zone".