NJ Pregnancy Center Denied Federal Relief in Inquiry Challenge

An anti-abortion medical center can’t proceed in federal court with its lawsuit seeking to block New Jersey’s attorney general from enforcing a request for its donor records, including their identities, a split appeals court said Thursday.

First Choice Women’s Resource Centers Inc.'s suit alleging First Amendment violations by Matthew Platkin (D) wasn’t ripe for review, two judges of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said in an unpublished decision. The group hasn’t demonstrated that it suffered an injury that’s concrete, particularized, imminent, and not speculative as a result of the attorney general’s actions, the court said in ...