Six Flags, a Vallejo amusement park, features rides and animal attractions on acres, including a ticketed interior portion with the entertainment activities and an exterior portion with an admissions area connected by walkways and streets to a paid parking lot. Management agreed to pay the city a percentage of annual admissions revenue.
In , Management banned all expressive activity at the park, including protests. The police and the district attorney declined to intervene without a court order. Management filed suit, alleging private trespass. The trial court granted Management summary judgment. The court of appeal reversed. While a long-time protestor failed to prove as a matter of law that he has acquired a common law prescriptive right to protest at the park, the exterior, unticketed areas of the amusement park are a public forum for expressive activity under California Constitution article I, section 2.
The exterior, unticketed areas of the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom amusement park are a public forum for expressive activity under article I, section 2 of the California Constitution.
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