Private Property Rights
The cluster debates the rights of private property owners to control access, eject trespassers, and restrict use of their land, often contrasting with public access claims like easements or beach paths, with analogies to websites and other legal contexts.
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Restricting access to land you don't own should be treated like theft.
It’s private property - the owner should be free to use it as they see fit.
Well it's private property so it's kind of up to the owner to decide that.
It's private property. Owner get to decide, who's allowed and who's not.
It's a settled matter of law in the USA that you can't arbitrarily do that to people's property.
At least in the U.S. anyone is allowed to order others off their own property...
It's this kind of stuff, which is illegalIt is? Is it a California specific law?It is private property, but there is public access. You could ask them to leave, but I wasn't aware a crime had been committed.
Why couldn't they? It's private property.
Can't we just let people do what they want in their property?
Exactly your backyard is of course yours. But you are not at liberty to use it to damage others. There's lots of rules about this. For example, opening a brothel on your own land is definitely not legal without considering how it affects the neighborhood.