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Cite as:  603 U. S. ____ (2024) 

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ALITO, J., concurring in judgment 

groups that are admitted, but not the individuals who are 
allowed to march as members of admitted groups.  Hurley, 
515 U. S., at 572–574.  In such a case, each of these prac-
tices would have to be analyzed separately. 

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Second,  the  host  must  use  the  compilation  of  speech  to
express  “some  sort  of  collective  point”—even  if  only  at  a
fairly abstract level.  Id., at 568.  Thus, a parade organizer
who  claims  a  First  Amendment  right  to  exclude  certain
groups or individuals would need to show at least that the 
message conveyed by the groups or individuals who are al-
lowed  to  march  comport  with  the  parade’s  theme.    Id.,  at 
560, 574.  A parade comprising “unrelated segments” that 
lumber along together willy-nilly would likely not express 
anything at all.  Id., at 576.  And although “a narrow, suc-
cinctly  articulable  message  is  not  a  condition  of  constitu-
tional protection,” compilations that organize the speech of 
others  in  a  non-expressive  way  (e.g.,  chronologically)  fall
“beyond the realm of expressi[on].”  Id., at 569; contra, ante, 
at 17–18. 

Our decision in PruneYard illustrates this point.  In that 
case, the Court held that a mall could be required to host 
third-party speech (i.e., to admit individuals who wanted to 
distribute  handbills  or  solicit  signatures  on  petitions)  be-
cause the mall’s admission policy did not express any mes-
sage, and because the mall was “open to the public at large.” 
PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U. S. 74, 83, 87– 
88  (1980);  303  Creative  LLC  v.  Elenis,  600  U. S.  570,  590 
(2023). 
In  such  circumstances,  we  held  that  the  First 
Amendment is not implicated merely because a host objects 
to a particular message or viewpoint.  See PG&E, 475 U. S., 
at 12. 

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Finally, a compiler must show that its “own message [is]