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Mall curfew

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• ... that a mall curfew policy at the Mall of America was challenged based on its constitutionality?

• Source: Go to the Mall with My Parents?? A Constitutional Analysis of the Mall of America's Juvenile Curfew

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Moved to mainspace by Reconrabbit (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

Reconrabbit 00:21, 2 July 2024 (UTC).

• I'll be picking this up for review, but before doing so I need some clarifications. The hook claims that the policy was challenged; however as far as I can tell it hasn't been tested in court yet, and the given source is more of an analysis about its constitutionality rather than any actual decision or lawsuit. The current hook wording might be too vague to meet scrutiny; perhaps attributing the challenge to the ACLU, or maybe changing the wording would address this concern. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:55, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

  It can get a little vague. A lot of articles bring up that these policies "are in a legal gray area", "have been opposed by advocacy groups", and that these analyses have been written, but no formal challenge was made. Here's an alternate (that may be a bit less exciting):

  • ALT1 ... that one of the first mall curfews was opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union?

  Source: Big Mall's Curfew Raises Questions Of Rights and Bias