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ROSEVILLE, Calif. — A northern California appeals court has struck down a shopping mall’s policy barring people from approaching strangers to chitchat.
The 3rd District Court of Appeal last week said the rules at Roseville’s Westfield Galleria violate the California Constitution’s free-speech guarantee.
The mall prohibited people in its common areas from approaching people they didn’t know to talk unless the conversation was about business involving the mall or its tenants. The case arose after mall officials issued a citizen’s arrest of a 27-year-old pastor who tried to talk about his faith.
