Judge rules against parents seeking to end New Jersey’s storage of baby blood

Judge rules against parents seeking to end New Jersey’s storage of baby blood

A federal judge dismissed a challenge to New Jersey's policy of storing blood drawn from newborns for disease screening. (Getty Images)A federal judge has rejected several New Jersey parents’ claims that the state’s practice of retaining blood samples from its mandatory newborn disease screening program violates their constitutional rights. U.S. District Court Judge Georgette Castner dismissed a lawsuit, first filed in 2023, that sought to stop …