Archive for April, 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic social distancing restrictions and in an effort to ensure the protection of this State’s vulnerable people, the New Jersey Supreme Court has relaxed the rules regarding the filing and completion of guardianship matters.

New Jersey created a bioethics panel to evaluate what to do if the demand for resources exceed available supply during the COVID-19 crisis. Where will people with disabilities be counted in this process? Worse yet: what if they are not? We must say to our policymakers and government officials: “Don’t leave us behind.” “Don’t give up on us.” “Our lives matter.”