A federal appeals panel has reinstated a 10-year-old lawsuit against Hudson County and its former jail director, less than a year after a former high-ranking jail official caught up in the same suit was ordered to pay more than $1.1 million. Six days into the 2023 trial over the 2014 federal lawsuit filed by former union president Luis Ocasio, claiming harassment, retaliation and other civil rights violations, the county and then-jail Director Oscar Aviles were dismissed from the litigation, leaving only then-Deputy Director Kirk Eady named in the suit. Eady, who was found guilty of illegally …
