GARCIA v. RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY

CIVIL ACTION NO. 01-4467.

210 F.Supp.2d 545 (2002)

Abel GARCIA, Plaintiff, v. The RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY, The Board of Trustees of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, The State of New Jersey, and President Vera King Farris, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

July 11, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Press, Press & Long, P.A., Northfield, NJ, for Plaintiff, Abel Garcia.

William F. Maderer, Lisa M. Papp, Paola Ciappina, Saiber, Schlesinger Satz & Goldstein, LLC, Newark, NJ, for Defendants, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, The Board of Trustees of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, the State of New Jersey, and President Vera King Farris.


OPINION

ORLOFSKY, District Judge.

I. Introduction

This case requires me to determine a question this Court has often taken for granted: specifically, whether the State of New Jersey and its alter egos may be sued in federal court under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. Perhaps surprisingly, the answer is plainly that they may not. Although that result leaves this Court, and many of the parties appearing before it, in the awkward position...

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