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Supreme Court Says Pro-Life Pregnancy Group Can Sue Over NJ AG Subpoena for Donor Information
9+ hour, 44+ min ago (217+ words) Writing for the unanimous court, Justice Neil Gorsuch said First Choice Women's Resource Centers has established a "present injury" to its First Amendment right to association sufficient to establish standing to sue in federal court. The nation's highest court reversed…...
New Jersey's 2026 Custody Amendments: Safety First and New Limits on Alienation Claims
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (216+ words) New Jersey's revised custody statute, N. J. S. A. 9: 2-4, as amended by S4510/A5761, effective January 2026, sharpens the court's framework for distinguishing legitimate child-safety concerns from unsupported claims by elevating a child's physical and emotional safety above the prior emphasis on frequent and continuing contact. On…...
Free Speech vs. Patient Safety: 3rd Circuit Grapples With NJ Telehealth Licensing Restriction
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (233+ words) An attorney for out-of-state doctors argued that telemedicine conversations are constitutionally protected speech and not "treatments" that New Jersey can reserve for in-state physicians. Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, Covington & Burling, Crowell & Moring, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Perkins Coie represent a…...
Four-Plaintiff Chicago Trial Opens Against Abbott Over Preterm Infant Formula
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (171+ words) The trial is the fourth in the nation to allege cow's milk-based formula fed to premature babies in hospitals causes a life-threatening gastrointestinal illness called necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC. Dean Omar Branham & Shirley, the Dallas plaintiffs' firm that won verdicts…...
Recalibrating Custody Adjudication in New Jersey: Child Safety, Judicial Discretion and the Limits of Legislative Design
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (186+ words) The recent amendments to N. J. S. A. 9: 2-4 reflect a legislative effort to prioritize child safety and to constrain therapeutic intervention in contested custody cases. This fourth reprint of S4510 and third reprint of A5761 issued on or about Dec. 22, 2025 substantially alters how contested custody cases…...
Florida Supreme Court Rules At-Home Sperm Donors Can Seek Parental Rights
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (303+ words) "This really isn't a decision about the rights of same sex couples to have a child. .. . It says a person, in this case a man, who has a constitutional right to parent his biological child, cannot be deemed to relinquish…...