HARDWICKE v. AMERICAN BOYCHOIR


845 A.2d 619 (2004)

368 N.J. Super. 71

John W. HARDWICKE, Jr. and Terri S. Hardwicke, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AMERICAN BOYCHOIR SCHOOL, Defendant-Respondent, and Donald Hanson, Richard Brenner, Thomas Conlin, Donald Profitt, David Schuster, J. Bruce Mellinger, Howard A. Jewell, Harold Jones and The Cook identified as "Ed" or "John," Defendants. Douglas Palmatier, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. American Boychoir School, Defendant-Respondent, and Donald Hanson, Defendant.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided March 26, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Lessig of the Illinois Bar, admitted pro hac vice, argued the cause for appellants (Piper Rudnick, attorneys; Robert A. Assuncao, Edison, and Keith E. Smith, of counsel and on the brief).

Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer, attorneys for appellant Douglas Palmatier, join in and rely upon the brief of appellants Hardwicke.

Jay H. Greenblatt, Vineland, argued the cause for respondent (Greenblatt & Laube and Destribats Campbell DeSantis & Magee, attorneys; Mr. Greenblatt, on the brief).

Before Judges STERN, PAYNE and LANDAU.


The judgment of the court was announced in an opinion by PAYNE, J.A.D.

In a recent opinion in Frugis v. Bracigliano, 177 N.J. 250, 827 A.2d 1040 (2003), an action against a public elementary school principal and his employer, the Elmwood Park Board of Education, for damages sustained by minors as the result of the principal's sexual abuse, the Supreme...

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