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East Orange settles five police lawsuits for $1.6 million, readies for trial on two others.

Between 2015 and 2018, several members of the East Orange Police Department (Essex County) filed sexual harassment, retaliation or discrimination lawsuits against the Department and its senior officials. Five of those suits have settled for a total of $1,647,500 while two others are still open and are scheduled for trial later this year. I have […]

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Bloomfield and East Orange pay $190,000 to man who claimed he was falsely arrested and jailed based on witnesses being shown an “improperly suggestive” photo array.

In mid-October 2022, the Township of Bloomfield and the City of East Orange, both in Essex County, New Jersey, agreed to pay $76,000 and $114,000, respectively, to an East Orange man who said that police used an unfair photo array method to get witnesses to identify him and then incorrectly reported the the witnesses’ statements […]

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Clark quietly paid $500,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by couple injured as a result of an allegedly improper police chase.

On July 6, 2022, the Township of Clark (Union County) quietly paid $500,000 to a couple who claimed to have been struck by a car that was being chased by police in a manner that violated the New Jersey Attorney General’s and Clark Police Department’s policies and procedures. In their lawsuit, Monika Solarska-Gnat and Slawomir […]