Garden State Equality v. Dow (82 A. 3d 336 - NJ: Superior Court, Law Div.
 2013) is a New Jersey Superior Court case that held on September 27, 2013, that the New Jersey's marriage laws violated the rights of same-sex couples to equal protection of the law under the New Jersey State Constitution.
 The trial court and a State Appellate Court refused the State's request for a stay of the trial court's decision, and the New Jersey Supreme Court refused to do so on a 7-0 vote.
 The ruling took effect on October 21, 2013; and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dropped the State's plans to appeal that same day, ending the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples in New Jersey.
James Weinstein is a transportation planner and executive.
 In 2010, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appointed him Executive Director of New Jersey Transit, the state agency for New Jersey which provides bus, light rail, and commuter rail.
 He served in that position until March 2014.
 He is on the advisory board of Rutgers University's Voorhees Transportation Center and the Board of Trustees for the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority.
Richard Alan "Dick" Zimmer (born August 16, 1944) is an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey, who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature and in the United States House of Representatives.
 He was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1996 and 2008.
 In March 2010, he was appointed by Governor Chris Christie to head the New Jersey Privatization Task Force.
The Fort Lee lane closure scandal, also known as the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal or Bridgegate, is a U.S. political scandal in which a staff member and political appointees of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) colluded to create traffic jams in Fort Lee, New Jersey, by closing lanes at the main toll plaza for the upper level of the George Washington Bridge.
David Samson (born August 14, 1939) is an American lawyer and convicted felon who served as New Jersey Attorney General under Democrat Governor Jim McGreevey from 2002 to 2003.
 He served as the Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) from 2011 until his resignation on March 28, 2014 in the aftermath of the Fort Lee lane closure scandal.
 Samson is a partner and founding member of the law firm Wolff & Samson from which he resigned in April 2015, and had been an ally of Governor Chris Christie.
The 2017 New Jersey state government shutdown was the second shutdown in the history of the U.S. state of New Jersey.
 The shutdown occurred after the New Jersey Legislature, and Governor Chris Christie failed to agree on a state budget by the constitutional deadline.
 Exercising his constitutional powers as governor, Christie ordered the shutdown as a means of pressuring the Legislature to pass a budget.
 The shutdown began at midnight on July 1, 2017, when Christie called for an orderly shutdown of non-essential government services.
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) is a public medical school located in Camden, New Jersey.
 It was created as a partnership between Rowan University and Cooper University Hospital in 2009 by the executive order of Governor Jon Corzine.
 CMSRU opened in summer 2012.
 It is the first new medical school in New Jersey in over 35 years and the only four-year MD-granting medical school in South Jersey.
 Rowan University and The Cooper Health System partnered in June 2009 to establish CMSRU.
 Located in Camden, NJ, CMSRU will help address the physician shortage locally and nationally, and improve healthcare throughout the region.
 New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie spoke at the school's opening.
 Its charter class was admitted in May 2012, and a second class matriculated in the Fall of 2013.
 By August 2015, CMSRU matriculated all four years of students.
David Wildstein (born September 1961) is an American businessman, Republican Party politician, political blogger, and the founder of the New Jersey political news website Politicker Network.
 A former mayor of Livingston, New Jersey, he served as a senior official in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey during the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie until 2013, when Wildstein resigned in the midst of a scandal involving traffic lanes closures.
 On May 1, 2015 he pleaded guilty to two federal counts of conspiracy as part of a plea agreement.
 Wildstein was sentenced in July 2017 without incarceration.
 He was sentenced to three years' probation and 500 hours of community service.
 He was also fined $10,000 and prohibited from seeking or accepting employment with any government agency.
William E. "Bill" Baroni, Jr. (born December 10, 1971) is an American Republican Party politician and law professor.
 He represented the 14th legislative district in the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly.
 In 2010, he was named by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to serve as the Deputy Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Route 67 is a short state highway entirely within the community of Fort Lee in Bergen County, New Jersey.
 It is part of the original alignment of U.S. Route 9W.
 The road runs 1.86 mi from an intersection with Central Boulevard in Fort Lee (also designated as Route 5) down Palisade Avenue in downtown Fort Lee.
 There it becomes known as Lemoine Avenue, terminating at an interchange with U.S. Route 9W, the Palisades Interstate Parkway and New Jersey Route 445S in Fort Lee.
 The route was designated originally as a portion of State Highway Route 18N in 1923, and was split up in 1929 as part of current-days New Jersey Route 63, U.S. Route 9W and Route 67 for Routes S-1, 1 and Route S1A.
 Route S-1-A remained intact on Palisades and Lemoine Avenue until the 1953 state highway renumbering when it was switched over to Route 67.
 The route has remained virtually intact since.

Question: Which American lawyer worked closely with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to create traffic jams in Fort Lee, New Jersey?
Answer: David Samson