The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated a $4 million verdict in a Newark police misconduct case, ruling that the District Court erred by vacating that verdict and reinstating a prior one for $2.7 million.

The second verdict was apparently vacated, along with an order remitting the first verdict to $750,000, under a plan to avoid a third trial in the case, the appeals court said on Thursday in Lesende v. Borrero.