N.J. Christian Pregnancy Resource Center Fails to Ditch Subpoena

Jan. 16, 2024, 4:06 PM UTC

A faith-based pregnancy counseling center can’t proceed with its suit to stop New Jersey from obtaining information about it as part of a civil fraud investigation.

First Choice Women’s Resource Centers Inc.'s lawsuit against Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) to quash an administrative subpoena wasn’t ripe, Judge Michael A. Shipp of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey said in an unpublished opinion Jan. 12.

Platkin’s subpoena, allegedly seeking about 10 years’ worth of the group’s information, wasn’t self-executing, and the attorney general hadn’t made any effort to enforce it through a procedure provided by state law, ...

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