Faith-Based Pregnancy Group Seeks Top Court Review of NJ Inquiry

A crisis pregnancy center can challenge New Jersey’s request for donor information in federal court because the state’s demand reasonably and objectively chilled its speech, the group said in a request for top court review.

A split US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly relegated to state court a First Amendment challenge to New Jesery Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s (D) investigatory subpoena for the data, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers Inc. told the US Supreme Court Tuesday. The constitutional claim was ripe for federal review even before a state court determined the subpoena was enforceable, it said.

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