Instead, he wound up on a four-year pilgrimage to the Supreme Court. Sara Bronin, a George Washington University law professor, questioned how the dispute wound up in federal court at all, let alone at the Supreme Court. Whether a case is “ripe” for review is a question that’s come up at the Supreme Court a lot lately. In April, a unanimous court allowed faith-based “crisis pregnancy centers” in New Jersey to challenge a subpoena from the state’s Democratic attorney general in federal court. New Jersey had tried to argue the case wasn’t ripe for federal court review because the centers hadn’t yet received a court order to enforce the subpoena.