An appeals court has reinstated a suit by a deputy attorney general who charged he suffered retaliation and missed promotions after complaining about colleagues’ racially insensitive remarks.

An Appellate Division panel held Thursday that a Superior Court judge wrongly dismissed Kenneth Green’s suit after a clerk refused to docket defense answers filed in federal court, to which the case had been removed. The panel also held that refusal to reinstate the suit was too harsh a sanction.

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