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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
2. Can this be expanded to other constitutional rights? For example, the reason picketing of businesses is allowed is that a business isn't really considered private property.
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Except that generally you have to picket on the sidewalk OUTSIDE of the business- - you can't actually go on the business property. That's because businesses ARE considered private property, with very few exceptions (such as the California law that says malls are public property (but the stores in the mall are still private))
I run into the private/public property thing all the time in my job. I can take all the pictures I want of your business as long as I'm on the public sidewalk, and you can't tell me to leave or to stop rolling. But if I walk on to your parking lot and you tell me to leave, I have to do so.