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Article: Judge refuses to keep Millville from punishing police officers
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- Press of Atlantic City
- Article date:
- June 19, 2007
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BRIDGETON - Four Millville police officers remained on the hook Monday after a judge tossed out a lawsuit they filed to prevent the city from punishing them for allegedly harassing a gay colleague.
The officers - Millville Police Chief Ronald Harvey; his son, Sgt. Michael Harvey; and two lieutenants, Edward Zadroga and Thomas Romanishin - argued in court papers that a statutory 45-day deadline for bringing charges against them had passed.
At a hearing Monday morning, however, Superior Court Judge G. Thomas Bowen dismissed the officers' lawsuit, saying that courts do not deal with hypothetical situations.
"I'm not going to make any ruling on what the city of Millville may or may not do," ...