By Jan Wolfe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by the conservative activist group Project Veritas to invalidate on constitutional free speech grounds an Oregon law that generally bans unannounced recordings of conversations.

The justices turned away the group’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that upheld the law and found that it did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s protections against government abridgment of free speech.

Oregon is one of a handful of states that make it a crime to record conversations unless all parties are notified. There are several exceptions to the ban, including ones that allow for recording interactions with on-duty police officers and conversations taking place during a violent felony.

The law relaxes the notif

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