Cedeno v. Montclair State University

I would reverse on the basis of the dissenting opinion in the Appellate Division. 319 N.J.Super. 148, 163-173, 725 A.2d 38 (1999). I appreciate that the Court has circumscribed its ruling to this limited context of a previously convicted person’s statutory disqualification from office under N.J.S.A. 2C:51-2, but I believe that the Court has set the bar too high in requiring “aggravated [physical or emotional] harm [to plaintiff] or egregious discrimina*480tory conduct” to sustain an award of monetary damages for employment discrimination. Ante at 479, 750 A.2d at 76.

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