Property Rights Decision
West Towne and East Towne malls were at the center of a mid 1980s Wisconsin Supreme Court case. In Jacobs (the mall's owner at the time) v. Major, an anti-nuclear dance group, called the Nu Parable dancers, was barred from performing a dance which ended in a "die-in" on the mall's property. At issue was the right of non-consensual use of private property for freedom of speech purposes. In 1987, the Wisconsin Supreme court ruled 4-3 in favor of the mall owner's right to exclude Nu Parable from both malls.
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