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

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 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 ...

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

A US anti-abortion group planning a series of protests outside a Scottish hospital have pledged not to break the country's ...

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.

That decision in Hill v. Colorado upheld a state law that established 100-foot buffer zones outside all health-care facilities — not just abortion clinics — and prohibited approaching a person ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away two appeals from abortion rights opponents asking the justices to overrule a 25-year-old decision that allowed for buffer zones around ...

Pro-life activists in the case argued that "buffer zones" – which were established after a previous Supreme Court decision in Colorado to shield patients from harassment – around abortion ...