A federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, rejected a motion by Senate President Nicholas Scutari and other defendants to dismiss a civil rights suit by a former Linden Municipal Court defendant on immunity grounds.

U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton denied motions to dismiss Scutari, a former municipal prosecutor in Linden; former municipal judge Louis DiLeo and former Mayor Richard Gerbounka from the suit based on prosecutorial, judicial and sovereign immunity.