[Enterprise]

I think Dartoid in post 50 gives it pretty succinctly. In my non-lawyer opinion I agree. Unless we are talking special circumstances dealing with public safety like airports, courtrooms, etc., the Constitution gives no one the right to search you or your property or detain you without probable cause. The loss prevention person(s) and security guards are just paid civilian employees of the company, nothing more. Now they can certainly ask and you can certainly refuse. At that point they have a choice. They can let you go or physically restrain you. If you are restrained, and you have not committed a crime, and there is no reasonable cause to believe that you have, you are being physically assaulted. And you have the right to use reasonable force to stop the assault. Hopefully you would have excellent witnesses or have something like this recorded for the pending lawsuit against them. (More than likely they would settle out of court.)

[1rudeboy]

You are so fortunate to have included the sentence "In my non-lawyer opinion I agree" in your comment. It was a very lawyerly thing to do, I might add. :)