NEWARK — A federal judge has denied a motion to disqualify an attorney in a police union dispute, rejecting the defendants’ claims that a legal services agreement between the plaintiffs’ counsel and the police union creates a conflict of interest.

A lieutenant and the chief of police in Pennsauken, N.J., who are defendants in the suit, moved to disqualify Katherine Hartman and her firm from representing the seven plaintiff officers. The disqualification motion cited Hartman’s legal services agreement to represent members of the Fraternal Order of Police Garden State Lodge 3, an organization that represents the plaintiffs and two of the defendants.

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