Legal Opinion
Garcia v. Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided July 11, 2002No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 01-4467PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ORLOFSKY, District Judge.
I. Introduction
This case requires me to determine a question this Court has often taken for granted: specifically, whether the State of New Jersey and its alter egos may be sued in federal court under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is plainly that they may not. Although that result leaves this Court, and many of the parties appearing before it, in the awkward position of maintaining parallel, duplicative litigation in both state and federal court, absent the enactment of a legislative solution by the State of New…
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