Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins

Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 18, 1980 Decided June 9, 1980
Full case name	Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins
Citations	447 U.S. 74 (more) 100 S.Ct. 2035; 64 L. Ed. 2d 741; 1980 U.S. LEXIS 129
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Ctr., 23 Cal. 3d 899, 153 Cal. Rptr. 854, 592 P.2d 341 (1979).
Holding
A state can prohibit the private owner of a shopping center from using state trespass law to exclude peaceful expressive activity in the open areas of the shopping center.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by Burger, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, Stevens (in full); White, Powell (in part); Blackmun (in part)
Concurrence	Marshall
Concurrence	White (in part)
Concurrence	Powell, joined by White (in part)

Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued on June 9, 1980 which affirmed the decision of the California Supreme Court in a case that arose out of a free speech dispute between the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell, California, and several local high school students (who wished to canvass signatures for a petition against United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379).^[1][2]