Ex-Port Authority Chief Revives Suit Over ‘Bridgegate’ Defense

Bill Baroni, the former deputy executive director of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who was implicated in the 2013 “Bridgegate” scandal, got a second chance to seek more than $4 million in legal expenses from the agency.

The district court erroneously decided that state laws “purporting to immunize the port authority” from federal lawsuits under certain circumstances “could deprive the federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction over a lawsuit,” Judge Steven J. Menashi said in a Tuesday opinion for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Rather, the port authority isn’t entitled to sovereign ...