The Supreme Court turned away two appeals asking the justices to overrule a 25-year-old decision that allowed for buffer ...

At issue was a 25-year precedent that allows local governments to create protest-free buffer zones around all health-care ...

The Supreme Court declined to consider overturning a 24-year-old precedent that upheld "buffer zone" laws limiting how close ...

Abortion opponents wanted the Supreme Court to scrap protest restrictions around clinics. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the legality of buffer zones used to protect access to ...

Justices Thomas and Alito dissented from the court’s refusal to reconsider a 25-year-old precedent upholding “buffer zones” ...

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a pair of cases from abortion opponents who say laws limiting anti-abortion ...

For nearly three years, it has seemed inevitable that the Supreme Court would strike down the “buffer zones” that restrict ...

The Supreme Court turned down an opportunity to overturn its precedent permitting buffer zones around abortion clinics over ...

The cities argued that the restrictions were enacted to curb disturbing behavior from protesters outside health care facilities.

The Supreme Court refused Monday to take up a First Amendment case to revisit a previous ruling enshrining abortion clinic ...

Thomas, an appointee of former President George H.W. Bush, criticized the Supreme Court’s refusal to revisit Hill v. Colorado (2000), a precedent that upheld so-called free speech “buffer zones” ...