January 27, 2026
A former New Jersey state court judge urged a federal court to reconsider the dismissal of her federal civil rights claims against a municipality and its police director, arguing that the court wrongly imposed an excessive evidentiary bar and misread a record of constitutionally deficient internal affairs investigations.
January 12, 2026
A New Jersey federal civil rights suit brought by a former state court judge against Woodbridge Township and two police officers stalled Monday, just days before a trial was set to commence, after the officers filed an interlocutory appeal challenging the court's refusal to grant them qualified immunity.
December 16, 2025
A New Jersey federal court has refused to throw out a former Garden State judge's civil rights lawsuit against two police officials, ruling that disputes over whether the officers fabricated or withheld evidence surrounding her 2013 arrest must be decided by a jury.
November 28, 2023
A former New Jersey Superior Court judge will soon get internal affairs records for the Woodbridge Police Department officers she has accused of racial bias, false arrest and malicious prosecution, as a federal magistrate judge has ruled that case law supports her bid for the files.
June 21, 2023
A former New Jersey Superior Court judge reiterated her demand for Internal Affairs records for the Woodbridge Police Department officers she claims violated her civil rights in a brief filed in federal court this week, arguing the case law is clear that Woodbridge Township must turn over the files.
August 13, 2021
A New Jersey town and its police force tried again to shut down a former state court judge's civil rights lawsuit over her arrest for allegedly harboring her fugitive ex-boyfriend, telling a federal court that it erred in refusing to toss the claims last month.
July 29, 2021
A New Jersey federal judge has rejected a town's new bid to toss a civil rights lawsuit by a former state court jurist over her arrest for allegedly harboring her fugitive ex-boyfriend, reasoning Thursday that the lawsuit was not barred by findings in criminal and ethics cases involving the same circumstances.
January 20, 2021
Former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Carlia M. Brady, who is suing Woodbridge Township and its police department for an allegedly malicious prosecution over her withholding of information on a then-fugitive boyfriend, has asked a federal judge to allow her civil rights suit to continue despite a disciplinary finding against her.
August 20, 2020
A New Jersey federal judge has reversed course after previously finding an ex-state judge's civil rights claims against a town were filed too late and will now allow her to pursue them over her arrest for allegedly hindering the apprehension of her then-fugitive boyfriend.
May 28, 2020
A New Jersey state judge facing ethics charges said she wasn't too late in filing civil rights claims against a municipality as she urged a federal court to set aside a ruling gutting her suit over her arrest for allegedly hindering the apprehension of her then-fugitive boyfriend.