LLOYD CORP., LTD. v. TANNER

No. 71-492.

407 U.S. 551 (1972)

LLOYD CORP., LTD. v. TANNER ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 22, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Black, Jr., argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Robert J. Miller, John H. Pickering, and Timothy B. Dyk.

Carl R. Neil argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Melvin L. Wulf and Sanford Jay Rosen.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by Jerry Kronenberg, Gerard C. Smetana, and Alan Raywid for the American Retail Federation, and by Lawrence M. Cohen and Allen B. Gresham for the Homart Development Co.

Roger Jon Diamond filed a brief for People's Lobby, Inc., as amicus curiae urging affirmance.


MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question reserved by the Court in Amalgamated Food Employees Union v. Logan Valley Plaza, 391 U.S. 308 (1968), as to the right of a privately owned shopping center to prohibit the distribution of handbills on its property when the handbilling is unrelated to the shopping center's operations. Relying primarily on Marsh v. Alabama,

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