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Originally Posted by Radar
She said she continued outside with her husband and chatted with friends on the way to the car when troopers called her over to speak.
They took her license and information and she said she asked why she was not allowed to hand out the forms if she was outside on public property.
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Think what you will about this (I personally think it's rather high-handed myself and, admittedly without the benfit of having been there, the theater manager could probably have done a lot better job of handling it). But I'm sorry, when you're in the parking lot of a movie theater, you're not on "public property." And there is fairly well-established case law that the owners of a privately-owned space that is open to the public, such as a mall or shopping center, DO NOT have to allow political protests or other activities on their property if they don't wish to.