The state Supreme Court has sent in a retired appeals court jurist to investigate complaints by some women judges in Essex County that they are being discriminated against by Assignment Judge Joseph Falcone and the vicinage’s presiding judges.
One judge, Francine Schott, took the unprecedented step of hiring a high-powered employment lawyer to press Chief Justice Deborah Poritz to reverse Schott’s reassignment to a different court. She succeeded as Poritz, in a rare move, overturned Falcone’s decision, according to five Essex judges and two lawyers.
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