Six longtime employees of the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office will get to keep the $3 million in damages awarded to them by a jury in their wrongful-termination case after the New Jersey Supreme Court declined to hear the government’s appeal.

In an order made public Oct. 20, the court denied a petition for certification in Brown v. County of Passaic, a case that was lodged by investigators who claimed their 2008 dismissals, part of a cost-saving measure, were motivated by age.

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