A federal civil rights suit over a municipal judge’s jailing of an indigent defendant for nonpayment of a $239 fine, a case that helped lead to the mounting calls for municipal court reform in New Jersey, has been resolved by a $180,000 settlement, according to records obtained by the Law Journal.

The suit claimed that Dennis McInerney, the judge in Burlington Township and the presiding municipal judge for Burlington County, failed to consider the indigent status of Anthony Kneisser before sending him to jail for nonpayment of the fine.