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

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

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

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

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

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

FILE PHOTO: An anti-abortion protester holds a placard outside of a Planned Parenthood mobile clinic nearby the United Center ...

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

The court has heard one other case involving buffer zones outside of abortion clinics since its ruling nearly 25 years ago. In 2014, the high court unanimously struck down a Massachusetts law that ...

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