New Jersey Revised Statutes § 10:7-2 affirms that every individual in the state has a fundamental right to make personal decisions about their reproductive health. This includes the right to use or decline contraception, to continue a pregnancy and give birth, or to terminate a pregnancy. The statute guarantees that these choices belong to the individual, and not to the government, and it protects access to both contraception and abortion services as part of that right.

Under New Jersey Public Law 2017, Chapter 176, discrimination in health insurance coverage and public employee benefit plans on the basis of gender identity, gender expression, or transgender status is prohibited.

Any discrimination based on sex in the hiring, compensation, promotion, and employment conditions of teachers and other personnel in all publicly funded schools, colleges, and universities is prohibited under New Jersey Revised Statutes § 18A:6-6. The statute mandates equal treatment in wage scales and employment practices, ensuring that sex cannot be used as a basis for differential pay or job opportunity within the state’s educational institutions.

New Jersey Revised Statutes § 52:18A-49.1 directs the Department of the Treasury to create and administer a certification process for LGBTQ+ owned businesses in accordance with Executive Order No. 295 (2022).

New Jersey Revised Statutes § 52:4B-51 requires the Attorney General, through the Department of Law and Public Safety, to establish and oversee a statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program. The statute defines a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner as a registered nurse with specialized forensic and medical training to provide trauma-informed care to sexual assault victims and to collect and preserve evidence for criminal investigation and prosecution.

New Jersey Revised Statutes §§ 37:1-1.1 and 37:1-6 define the state’s legal parameters for marriage, reflecting both equality in access and the protection of minors. Section 37:1-1.1 affirms that marriage in New Jersey is a civil contract between two consenting adults, regardless of their gender identity, and it codifies the constitutional recognition of marriage equality established through 

Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution states:

“The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows.”

• AGENCY LAW
• SOVERIGN IMMUNITY
• appeal
• government contracts
• collateral order doctrine

Can a government contractor immediately appeal a denied claim for “derivative sovereign immunity” under the collateral-order doctrine?

Whether an order denying a government contractor’s claim of derivative sovereign immunity is immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctrine.

The GEO Group, Inc. (“GEO”) operates the Aurora Immigration Processing Center (“AIPC”) under a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”). The GEO Group, Inc. v. Menocal, et. al. at 3. Alejandro Menocal was a detainee at AIPC in Aurora, Colorado, from June 2014 to September 2014.

• John Elwood, Government contractors’ defenses, election challenges, and intellectual disability in capital cases, SCOTUSblog (May 29, 2025).
• Kristine Phillips, Thousands Of Detained Immigrants Say They Were Forced To Work For $1 A Day or Less, Miami Herald (March 6, 2017).
• Daniel Wiessner, US Supreme Court to Review GEO Group’s Loss In Immigrant Detainee Forced Labor Case, Reuters (June 2, 2025).
• The Associated Press, Former Immigration Detainees Challenge Labor Practices In Federal Court, CPR News (June 22, 2017). 

• sentencing
• statutory interpretation
• due process
• COMPASSIONATE RELEASE

Can a district court consider sentencing disparities created by the First Step Act when deciding whether compassionate release is warranted by “extraordinary and compelling reasons?”

Whether a district court may consider disparities created by the First Step Act’s prospective changes in sentencing law when deciding if “extraordinary and compelling reasons” warrant a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i).

As part of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (“SRA”), Congress enacted a “compassionate release” provision that allows district courts to reduce prison sentences. 

• Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Supreme Court Takes Up More Cases on Compassionate Release, Bloomberg Law (June 6, 2025).
• Rory Little, Criminal case arguments in the November sitting, SCOTUSblog (Oct. 29, 2025).

• RELIGION AND THE CONSTITUTION
• Spending Power
• Necessary and Proper Clause
• damages
• RELIGIOUS LAND USE AND INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS ACT OF 2000

Are monetary damages permissible against a government official for violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000?

Are monetary damages permissible against a government official for violations of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000?

Incarcerated in 2020 for approximately six months, Damon Landor was held in three different correctional facilities in Louisiana. Landor v.

• Lawrence Hurley, Supreme Court takes up religious claim by Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were cut by prison officials, NBC News (June 23, 2025).
• Damon Root, Prison Guards Forcibly Cut a Rastafarian Inmate's Dreadlocks. SCOTUS Will Decide If They Can Be Sued Over It., Reason (Sept. 9, 2025).
• Mark Sherman, Supreme Court will hear case of Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shaved by Louisiana prison guards, The Associated Press (June 23, 2025).
• WBRZ Staff, U.S. Supreme Court hearing case concerning Louisiana inmate whose head was shaved, WBRZ (June 23, 2025).