A federal judge has sanctioned a civil rights attorney for alleging in a discrimination lawsuit that the Bridgeport Board of Education will not hire any private practice African-American attorneys to handle its cases, including her.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Meyer has ordered Josephine Miller, of Danbury, to pay a $1,500 penalty. At the same time, he dismissed the lawsuit and referred the matter for disciplinary review to the Connecticut Statewide Bar Counsel.