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soldierant

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1. A privately owned business is not a public space. It is private property.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 12:48 AM
Oct 31

`The owner, and the employees as his or her agents have the right to refuse service to anyone. There are three kinds of people who come to a business: intiviees (usually someone with an appointment - but certainly people who are already associated with the business through at least one prior transaction), licensees (anyone who comes to the business and may or may not make a business transaction, but who does not shoplift or otherwise behave in such a way as to interfere with the business), and trespassers (anyone who comes to the premises and behaves in such a way as to interfere with the business and with its rules.) Depending on state or municipal law trespassing may be a tort or it may be a misdemeanor . It would not be a felony in itself. But anyone who committed a felony there would definitely be a trespasser. "Karen" here is not a felon - but she is a trespasser.

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