Opinion ID: 2165165
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Heading: hamilton mall

Text: The Hamilton Mall has sponsored the following public events at the mall in 1990 to which shoppers and other members of the general public were invited without an admission charge: Winter Clearance Sidewalk Sale Retirement Show and Band performance Valentine's Celebration/Bridal Fair & Fashion Show Colonial Arts Show Spring Home and Garden Show Atlantic City Magazine Restaurant Gala Fashion Show Easter Bunny Arrival Parade and Spring Freeze Modeling Your Cholesterol Counts Day Of The Young Child Auto Show Showcase of Services Women of the 90's Show RNS Mother's Day Celebration Arts and Crafts Show Master Artists Tour Toys For Dads Rose Show Antique Shoe/Father's Day Event Informal Modeling At The Atlantic City Race Course Hamilton Mall Night At The Races The Artie Shaw Band Performance and Mallwalker Club Reception ACC Day At The Mall Key To Success Seminar Health To You Show TV 40 Grand Prize Drawing Key To Success Phase II Awards Boat Show Toddler Tryouts Fall Home Show 4-H Day At The Mall 1991 Auto Preview Halloween Trick or Treat and Costume Contest Orchid Society Show Santa's Arrival Coastal Cops Celebration Holiday Holiday Fashion Extravaganza WKTU Charity Day Shopper Service Day After complying with every requirement set forth in the guidelines for non-commercial activity, the Kiwanis and Girl Scouts were permitted to use the Community Booth at the Hamilton Mall in a manner consistent with the mall's policies. A non-partisan voter registration drive was held on consecutive Saturdays in September 1990 and was sponsored by the Atlantic Area Business and Professional Women, Inc. The mall also coordinates with local businesses a program for children ages six to twelve called Coastal Cops. The activities include a clean-up effort of the area's beaches. Hamilton Mall Merchant's Association sponsors a mall walkers program. Participation is open to the public. No cost or purchase is necessary. The mall is opened as early as 7 A.M. on weekdays and Saturdays for the convenience of tenants and their employees. Members of the mall walkers program may walk in the mall at this time provided they display a membership button at all times. GARIBALDI, J., dissenting. Today the Court holds that the New Jersey Constitution requires that owners of privately-owned-and-operated shopping malls who invite the public onto their property for commercial purposes must allow the public free access to that property to engage in unrestricted expressional activities, including, through the distribution of leaflets and petitions to shoppers, the promotion of various political or social views. To reach that conclusion, the majority distorts the test announced in State v. Schmid, 84 N.J. 535, 563, 423 A. 2d 615 (1980); dismisses completely the rights of private-property owners to regulate and control the use of their own property; disregards the trial court's findings of fact, developed after an extensive eleven-day trial; and instead relies primarily on old theories that the United States Supreme Court and most other state courts long ago discarded. Under the majority's rudderless standard, whether property is owned privately or publicly is irrelevant; whether the message is discordant with the private property's use and purpose likewise makes no difference; and whether less-convenient but equally-accessible and -effective means of distribution exist is of no moment. So long as the private property, here a shopping mall, offers an opportunity for many people to congregate, the private-property owners must grant those people free access for expressional activity, regardless of the message or of its disruptive effect. Although the Court duly notes that such access will be subject to reasonable restrictions of time, place, and manner, ante at 782-783, 650 A. 2d at 376-379, its opinion reveals that the restrictions will be minimal and will present more problems and lawsuits than they will solve.