A jury has ordered the state Administrative Office of the Courts to pay $1.7 million for discriminating against a disabled employee by failing to plan her evacuation from a fifth-floor office during a fire drill.

Melissa Migut, who worked in the Intensive Supervision Program at the Probation Department, exacerbated a pre-existing leg injury when she struggled down the stairs of her Trenton office.

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