A former Newark schoolteacher who won a $15 million disability discrimination verdict will have to retry the case because of her attorney’s failure to turn over an audio recording to the defense.
Essex County Superior Court Judge Michelle Hollar-Gregory on Nov. 21 refused to reconsider her prior decision to vacate the verdict and grant a new trial in Davis v. Newark Public Schools on the grounds that the nonproduction of the recording, in which the plaintiff discusses her job, prejudiced the defendant and resulted in a “miscarriage of justice.”
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