The sponsors would also have to appoint monitors who would review data from the trials and be able to make unannounced inspections.
The filing notes that courts have long required injunctive relief to correct unconstitutional conduct and that the courts' authority to appoint monitors is well established.
Representative Frank Pallone, a Democrat who has been critical of Mr. Christie, proposed legislation that would strip prosecutors of the power to appoint monitors, saying in an open letter to Mr. Christie that the current system "invites the very sort of favoritism, political interference, and back-room dealing that your office has been so successful in combating".
In addition, negotiations with the union representing the district's 35,000 teachers are proceeding slowly only four weeks before their contract expires, and some state lawmakers are proposing to appoint a monitor to oversee the schools.
In December 1999, after the United States Justice Department completed a three-year investigation, the state entered a consent decree that allows a federal judge to appoint a monitor to ensure that the state deters racial profiling in the future.
The plaintiffs have asked the State Supreme Court to appoint a monitor to oversee implementation of the prekindergarten programs that the court ordered for the 30 poor urban districts involved in the Abbott case in 1998.
In New Jersey, a federal judge last week used for the first time a civil racketeering statute usually employed against organized crime and corrupt labor unions to appoint a monitor to run the I.B.F.
Attorney General Jerry Brown asked a state court Thursday to appoint a monitor to oversee the finances of the city of Bell, which has been embroiled in a scandal over the excessive compensation of some of its former top officials.
The judge ruled that the only way to combat this official intransigence was to appoint a monitor with wide-ranging powers and a tenure of at least 10 years.
Mr. Sharpton's group said it also wanted the Justice Department to bring federal civil rights charges against the police officers recently acquitted of criminal charges in the shooting of Amadou Diallo and to petition a federal judge to appoint a monitor to oversee the Police Department.
