A federal judge has ruled that a Haitian-American former employee of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority can pursue a hostile work environment claim.

But U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson, sitting in Trenton, also knocked out plaintiff Lude Jasmin’s claims lodged under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, the New Jersey Civil Rights Act or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act in her July 30 ruling, in part because of sovereign immunity.