BATCHELDER v. ALLIED STORES INTERNATIONAL, INC.


388 Mass. 83 (1983)

445 N.E.2d 590

DONALD P. BATCHELDER vs. ALLIED STORES INTERNATIONAL, INC. & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

January 28, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roderick MacLeish, Jr., & Robert A. Sherman (John Reinstein with them) for the plaintiff.

John A. Christopher, IV, for the defendants.

Anthony P. Sager & Stephen M. Limon, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Attorney General & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

We are concerned with the right of a person to solicit signatures in the mall area of a large, private shopping center in support of a candidate's nomination to public office. The defendants (North Shore) denied that right to the plaintiff, Donald P. Batchelder. Batchelder then commenced this action asserting that he had a right under arts. 9 and 16 of the Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of the Commonwealth...

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