Ralphs Grocery Company, Plaintiff and Appellant v. United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 8, Defendant And…

Summary

The court held that the privately owned walkway immediately outside the supermarket entrance was not a public forum under the California Constitution, but that peaceful labor picketing there remained protected by California labor statutes. It further held that the statutory protections for labor-related speech did not violate the federal constitutional prohibition on content-based speech regulation because they formed part of an economic and labor-relations regulatory system and did not restrict speech in a public forum. The court reversed the Court of Appeal and remanded for further proceedings.