Article: Parking-lot laws: an assault on private-property rights and workplace safety.

ABSTRACT: In March 2004, Oklahoma passed a law prohibiting property owners from banning firearms from their parking lots. Several months later, a number of interested companies filed suit, seeking to enjoin the law's enforcement. Among other assertions, the companies claimed that such "parking-lot laws" violated their property rights under both the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause. Claiming such laws are necessary for employees to be able to freely exercise their right to self-defense, the National Rifle Association has been pushing for the passage of parking-lot laws in all fifty states. This Note concludes that while ...

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