Racial Discrimination New Jersey

State officials agreed to pay $12.9 million to the four victims of a 1998 police shooting on the New Jersey Turnpike that caused a national furor over racial profiling. The state did not admit any wrongdoing in settling the civil suit. The four men--three black, one Latino--were pulled over near Trenton as they headed to a North Carolina college. Three of them were injured in the shooting. Two white troopers, John Hogan and James Kenna, said they stopped the van for speeding.

State officials agreed to pay $12.9 million to the four victims of a 1998 police shooting on the New Jersey Turnpike that caused a national furor over racial profiling. The state did not admit any wrongdoing in settling the civil suit. The four men--three black, one Latino--were pulled over near Trenton as they headed to a North Carolina college. Three of them were injured in the shooting. Two white troopers, John Hogan and James Kenna, said they stopped the van for speeding.

The federal government took an unprecedented step Wednesday against the controversial practice of racial profiling, striking an agreement with the state of New Jersey to ensure that its troopers no longer use race as a factor in highway traffic stops. U.S.

The federal government took an unprecedented step Wednesday against the controversial practice of racial profiling, striking an agreement with the state of New Jersey to ensure that its troopers no longer use race as a factor in highway traffic stops. U.S.

Fearing that the Supreme Court would use a white New Jersey schoolteacher's discrimination case to outlaw most affirmative action, a group of black civil rights leaders has agreed to pay her more than $308,000 to drop her lawsuit. The highly unusual settlement, approved late Thursday night by the Piscataway, N.J., school board, should end the case, which was pending before the high court and had the potential for a landmark ruling restricting affirmative action. Last year, a U.S.

Fearing that the Supreme Court would use a white New Jersey schoolteacher's discrimination case to outlaw most affirmative action, a group of black civil rights leaders has agreed to pay her more than $308,000 to drop her lawsuit. The highly unusual settlement, approved late Thursday night by the Piscataway, N.J., school board, should end the case, which was pending before the high court and had the potential for a landmark ruling restricting affirmative action. Last year, a U.S.