NJ Appellate Court Overturns Suspension of Aid-in-Dying Law

This morning, a New Jersey appellate court overturned a superior court’s temporary restraining order that had suspended the state’s new medical aid-in-dying law.  The court’s ruling stated: “Having reviewed the record against the applicable law, we conclude the court abused its discretion in awarding preliminary injunctive relief...Accordingly, we dissolve the restraints issued pursuant to the August 14, 2019 order.” 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. They had been prevented from using the law since it was suspended on Aug. 14.  The restraining order 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. The appellate court did not rule on the merits of the lawsuit, which will continue to be litigated in superior court.   Compassion & Choices, the leading advocacy organization on MAID, released a press release. “My terminally ill wife is in agony every single day, so we were heartbroken when we found out the law was suspended,” said Fort Lee resident Freddy Kalles, whose wife, Katie Kim, suffers from a progressive, terminal disease called Multiple System Atrophy and requires Fentanyl patches and morphine every day to c...
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