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George Beecher v. New Jersey

Paid petition · Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, No. A-1985-18T1 · judgment June 12, 2020

Certiorari denied · May 17, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Did the New Jersey Supreme Court err in adopting a ruling that a defendant prescriber does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in patient prescription records maintained by the New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program (NJPMP) and in failing to invalidate N.J.S.A. 45:1-46i(8)?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
David James Altieri
Galantucci & Patuto, Esqs

For respondent
Steven Alan Yomtov
State of NJ, Dept of Law & Public Safety, Division

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Related
Vide, 20-1442

Proceedings

  1. May 17 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 27 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/13/2021.
  3. Apr 22 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent The State of New Jersey to respond filed.
  4. Apr 12 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 17, 2021)