A federal judge has refused to supervise the rollout of COVID-19 safety measures at Newark’s immigration court, after one lawyer practicing there died and another became infected.

U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez Friday denied a request by the American Immigration Lawyers Association to direct a plan for rollout of remote videoconferencing at the Newark court, finding the immigration lawyers were not entitled to injunctive relief.

Backstory: One Lawyer Is Dead, Another Infected Amid Calls for COVID-19 Safeguards in Newark Court