California law has been settled since 1980, that large shopping malls must permit petitioning, even if that mall is private property. However, on October 5, a California State Court of Appeals ruled that when a large mall contains some very large stores with their own individual entrances, petitioning may be banned in front of those individual store entrances. The case is Vernon Van v Home Depot, B190831. It doesn’t make any difference whether the mall itself owns the property, or whether the individual store owns the property. The court differentiated bewteen the part of a mall that is used by people entering or exiting just one store, versus parts of malls that have a greater variety of usage.