First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc., Petitioner v. Jennifer Davenport, Attorney General of New Jersey

The Supreme Court resolved the fight over whether First Choice could bring its federal constitutional challenge in federal court while New Jersey pursued an investigation and a demand for donor information. The prompt does not provide the vote count or the full opinion details.

The answer affects where groups can go when they say a state investigation chills their First Amendment rights. For example, a religious or advocacy nonprofit that receives a demand for donor lists now has clearer rules about whether it can ask a federal judge for help right away.

Lower courts, state investigators, and affected groups must now follow the Supreme Court's rule in this case and similar disputes. In First Choice's own case, the parties will take the next procedural steps required by that rule.

The case asked whether a federal court can hear First Choice's First Amendment challenge to New Jersey's donor-information demand. The dispute focused on whether those claims had to be addressed in state court first.

Religious groups, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations are directly affected when states seek donor or supporter information. The ruling shapes how they raise free-speech objections to those demands.

Courts and state agencies must now apply the Supreme Court's answer to similar subpoena fights. First Choice and New Jersey will proceed under that rule in any remaining proceedings.