New Jersey appeals court requires conversion therapy practice to pay $3.5 million for breaching settlement terms
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metroweekly.comfound the organization had violated New Jersey’s consumer fraud law.In issuing that decision, the jury found that JONAH had violated the consumer fraud law by promising a service on which it could not deliver: the changing of clients’ orientation from gay to straight, on the premise that being gay is a treatable mental disorder, a position that was rejected by the American Psychiatric Association more than four decades ago.It also awarded the plaintiffs — three former clients and two of their mothers — $72,400 in damages to compensate them for fees they paid to JONAH to enroll in conversion therapy sessions, as well as remedial mental health counseling for one of the former clients.As part of the settlement, JONAH agreed to pay the full.
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