September 24, 2024
Advocates for state laws that allow physicians to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients hit a roadblock when a New Jersey federal judge concluded the state can limit it to state residents. Previous challenges in two other states prompted changes to aid-in-dying statues.
February 01, 2024
New Jersey's attorney general has asked a Garden State federal court to dismiss a lawsuit alleging a residency requirement in the state's 2019 law allowing terminally ill patients to request life-ending medications violates the U.S. Constitution.