Doe v. New Jersey Dep't of Corr., Docket No. A-5101-18T1

Roger Plawker and James W. Boyan Ill served as appellate co­-counsel with ACLU-NJ, representing Sonia Doe, a transgender woman, in a successful appeal of disciplinary sanctions imposed upon her while in the custody of the New Jersey Department of Corrections. The Appellate Division ordered chat Doe's sanctions be reconsidered in recognition that she was a "member of a vulnerable population" under the newly passed Isolated Confinement Restriction Act, which provides chat isolated confinement should not be used against such populations.

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