WOODLAND v. CITIZENS LOBBY

Docket Nos. 72625, 72332, 72333. (Calendar Nos. 10, 11).

423 Mich. 188 (1985)

378 N.W.2d 337

WOODLAND v. MICHIGAN CITIZENS LOBBY EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY v. MICHIGAN CITIZENS LOBBY EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY v. FLINT TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 13, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miro, Miro & Weiner P.C. (by Joseph Aviv), for plaintiff Woodland.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone (by Gregory L. Curtner and Gerald E. Rosen), for plaintiffs Equitable Life Assurance Society and TCC Center Companies, Inc.

Peter Linzer, Cooperating Attorney for American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan (Robert Jerome Glennon and Ann L. Nowak, of counsel), for defendants Michigan Citizens Lobby, et al.

Amici Curiae:

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Michael J. Moquin, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General.

Sachs, Nunn, Kates, Kadushin, O'Hare, Helveston & Waldman, P.C. (by Theodore Sachs, Mary Ellen Gurewitz, and Mark Brewer), for Local 876, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC and Michigan State AFL-CIO.


RILEY, J.

In each of these cases the Michigan Citizens Lobby sought to engage in the solicitation of signatures for an initiative petition in the mall areas of privately owned shopping centers, over the objection of their owners, claiming that the denial or restriction of this activity is violative of the Michigan Constitution.

The issue presented is whether the Michigan Constitution's Declaration of Rights provisions which guarantee the rights of free expression...

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