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* http://www.cirp.org/news/star-ledger12-03-00/
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James Price, the father brought a suit to protect his son from a harmful and injurious circumcision. The trial was held in the court of Judge Paul Armstrong in Somerset County. Judge Armstrong ordered a circumcision, but James Price appealed. The appellate court upheld Judge Armstrong's order, but State Supreme Court Justice Peter Verniero issued an emergency stay the following day, and on Oct. 31 the justices voted to send the matter back to Armstrong for a full hearing.<ref name="coscarelli2000">{{REFnews
|title=Mother's battle to circumcise is in court
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/star-ledger12-03-00/
|last=Coscarelli
|first=Kate
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|publisher=Newark Star-Ledger
|website=www.cirp.org
|date=2000-12-03
|accessdate=2020-06-19
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Good medical practice requires that a boy's protective foreskin not be disturbed by forcible retraction. Wright reported, "[t]he normal prepuce should be left alone, with no attempt to retract it until the boy is able to do it himself, at the earliest at three years of age."<ref name="Wright1994">{{REFjournal
|last=Wright
|first=J.E.
|title=Further to the "Further Fate of the Foreskin"
|journal=Med J Aust
|volume=160
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|pages=134-35
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/normal/wright2/
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|pubmedID=8295581
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|date=1994-02-07
|accessdate=2020-6-19
}}</ref> Matthew did not receive good care of his penis from his mother.
In January 2001 a dispute between divorcing parents in New Jersey was resolved when the mother, who sought to have the boy circumcised withdrew her request. The boy had experienced two instances of foreskin inflammation and she wanted to have him circumcised. The father, who had experienced a traumatic circumcision as a child objected and they turned to the courts for a decision. The [https://www.mhsnj.org Medical Society of New Jersey] and the Urology Society of New Jersey both opposed any court ordered medical treatment. As the parties came to an agreement, no precedent was set.
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* [[Foreskin Care for Boys]]
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* http://www.cirp.org/news/star-ledger01-25-01/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_and_law#United_States