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

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

The two cases questioned a longstanding precedent that upheld such laws, which opponents say violate free speech rights.

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

The Supreme Court has declined to hear cases from abortion opponents who say limiting demonstrations near clinics violate ...

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

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

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

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

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” ...

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