A federal judge in Trenton has ruled that the commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is immune from a civil rights suit over her modification of an evidentiary ruling made by an administrative law judge.

U.S. District Chief Judge Freda Wolfson of the District of New Jersey granted the motion by commissioner Marlene Caride to dismiss the suit, finding that Caride was entitled to quasi-judicial absolute immunity when she made the ruling that prompted the suit.

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