Intentionally or not, the U.S. Supreme Court chose Cyber Monday to announce it would not slow down the march of states seeking to impose sales taxes on Internet retail purchases.

Without comment, the justices on Dec. 2 denied review in a pair of cases, Overstock.com v. New York and Amazon.com v. New York, which challenged New York state’s 2008 law imposing a sales tax on Internet retailers, even those without a brick-and-mortar physical presence in that state.