Constitutionally Protected Expressive Activity & the First Amendment: “Who Ya Gonna Call?”

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Constitutionally Protected Expressive Activity & the First Amendment: 

“Who Ya Gonna Call ”

Robert C. Phillips
Deputy District Attorney (Ret.)
RCPhill101@goldenwest.net
858-395-0302
August, 2021

            The situation is not at all uncommon:  An individual business owner, security official for a large shopping mall, or store manager representing a major retail chain store such as (but not limited to) Costco, Wal-Mart or Target, complains to law enforcement that demonstrators, signature collectors, pamphlet distributors, an organization soliciting funds for themselves or for a charity, a panhandler, or some other politically, socially, or religiously motivated individual or ....