A federal judge in Trenton has dismissed civil rights claims brought against 14 New Jersey Superior Court judges by a group of fathers who alleged their due process rights were violated in child custody proceedings.
Rather than take an appeal or sue the state court system, the fathers sued the specific judges presiding over their cases. But the judges are not the proper defendants, U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson of the District of New Jersey said in dismissing the plaintiffs’ claims related to the manner in which custody hearings are conducted. She declined, however, to dismiss a claim related to an order by one judge barring a litigant from speaking to the media, finding the issue was not sufficiently briefed.
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