trespass
Is calling a store in which you are banned illegal?
<p>I called a store to apologize for a actions that involved me. They told me that calling the store violates my ban and breaking their ban is against the law. They threatened to file a trespass complaint on me. Can they do so?</p>

<p>This depends on the nature of the "ban" ---i.e., who issued it, what legal power they have, and what it actually requires you to refrain from doing.  You say it is "their ban" so I am going to assume that this is just a decision that the store has made not to allow you entry.</p>

<p>If it is indeed the store itself that has "banned" you, this would not prevent you from calling them to apologise for whatever you did.  Calling a business on the phone cannot generally be considered a trespass --- at most, if you were to repeatedly call and harass a business over and over again, it might give rise to a nuisance suit.  Unless you have extremely strange laws in your jurisdiction, it is almost certainly not against the law for you to call a business that has banned you, <em>a fortiori</em> if this phone call is made for the purposes of apologising for whatever you did that led to the ban.</p>

<p>Although it does not appear to be the situation in this case, if this ban was an actual restraining order of some kind issued by a Court, then it might indeed prevent you from contacting the business (in which case breaching it would lead to an action for contempt of court, not trespass).  If a Court were to issue you with an injunction or restraining order of some kind to ban you from a business, then that instrument would specify what you are prevented from doing.  You would then need to be very careful to comply with that order.</p>

<p>In short: there is a great deal of difference between a "ban" made by a store as the owner of property, and a ban issued by a court through an injunction or restraining order.</p>
