March 3 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from Pennsylvania and Texas towns that sought to bar landlords from renting to undocumented immigrants.

The justices today left intact lower court rulings that said the measures in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and Farmers Branch, Texas, ran afoul of federal immigration law.

The cases offered the high court the chance to revisit the steps that states and local governments can take to crack down on illegal immigration. In 2012, the justices struck down parts of an Arizona law, including criminal provisions that would have barred people from being in the state without proper documentation.