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

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

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

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

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

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

On Monday, the Supreme Court handed abortion rights advocates a rare win when they declined to take up a pair of cases ...

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 buffer zone laws, earning a fiery dissent from Justice Thomas.

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” ...