A federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, imposed a $7,020 sanction on an attorney and the lawyer’s former clients in a wage-and-hour suit for failure to provide discovery.

Elmwood Park, New Jersey, attorney Christopher Karounos and the operators of a Morristown, New Jersey, restaurant called Fig and Lily Garden must each pay half of the sanction for noncompliance with discovery orders and repeated failures to attend court conferences, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andre Espinosa said.