New Jersey appeals court requires conversion therapy practice to pay $3.5 million in legal fees
Jews Offering New Alternatives to Healing agreed to dissolve in settling consumer fraud lawsuit, but reopened and began operating under another name.
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A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a Jewish conversion therapy practice must pay $3.5 million to former clients after it breached the terms of a settlement agreement that reduced the group’s financial liability.
On Tuesday, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey upheld a lower court’s ruling finding that the Jewish Institute for Global Awareness (JIFGA), formerly known as Jews Offering New Alternatives to Healing, had violated the terms of a settlement agreement reached with plaintiffs in December 2015, six months after a New Jersey jury found the organization had violated New Jersey’s consumer fraud law.
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RENSSELAER â The annual Rensselaer Central High School Art Show received a little extra help this year, as a collaboration was created to help promote the show.Â
The collaboration was a work of art between the art students, who are supplying the artwork, and the marketing students, who are helping to promote the show.
Rensselaer Central High School business teacher Stephanie Dobson and the marketing class worked with art teacher Kelley Spurgeon to help promote the annual show that features work from all the art students.Â
Dobson said advertising was one of the topics the students recently learned about so as a hands-on project the students helped promote the sale of the outdoor furniture made by Michael Goadâs class. Helping promote the art show is the second project the students could complete.Â