Appeal Filed Against NJ Assisted Suicide Law

A lawsuit was filed Against the state of  NJ  to stop the assisted suicide bill. The law was put on hold by a  superior court’s temporary restraining order that  suspended the state’s new medical aid-in-dying law. It was in response to a lawsuit, Glassman v. Grewal, filed against the New Jersey attorney general by an Orthodox Jewish physician, Yosef Glassman, who says he opposes the law because of his religious beliefs. In August of 2019 a New Jersey appellate court overturned the superior court’s temporary restraining order that had suspended the state’s new medical aid-in-dying law. The appellate court ruling reinstated the law, which originally took effect on Aug. 1. Now, terminally ill state residents will be able to use it to "peacefully end their suffering".

The appellate court did not rule on the merits of the lawsuit, which will continue to be litigated in superior court. On April 1, 2020 A Superior Court judge has dismissed the lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s 2019 medical aid-in-dying law, holding that a doctor and two others named as plaintiffs had neither legal standing nor the constitutional right to interfere with a terminally ill person’s choice to end his or her life. Mercer County Superior Court Judge Robert Lougy granted a motion by state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal to dismiss the complaint in Glassman v. Grewal, which sought to overturn the controversial law.

Last week activists obtained attorney Margret Dore who filed a motion for Reconsideration in the Glassman Case To view Dore's brief as submitted, click here.