TOWN OF KEARNY v. BRANDT

A-60-11, A-61-11 September Term 2011, 068992

67 A.3d 601 (2013)

214 N.J. 76

TOWN OF KEARNY, Plaintiff-Appellant and Cross-Respondent, v. Louis F. BRANDT, AIA, Michael Kuybida, AIA, Robert Strebi, R.A., Brandt-Kuybida Architects, Defendants-Respondents and Cross-Appellants, and John N. Harrison, P.E., Harrison-Hamnett, P.C., William J. St. Pierre, P.E., Soils Engineering Services, Inc., Defendants.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided June 20, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norma Garcia-Anstatt argued the cause for appellant and cross-respondent (Castano Quigley, attorneys).

Katherine Herr Solomon , a member of the New York bar, argued the cause for respondents and cross-appellants (Mauro Lilling Naparty and Cimino & Filippone, attorneys; Ms. Solomon and Matthew W. Naparty , of counsel and on the briefs).


Justice PATTERSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

This construction dispute requires the Court to consider two issues: 1) when a building can be considered substantially complete for purposes of calculating the ten-year period of the statute of repose, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-1.11(a), and 2) whether the Comparative Negligence Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:15-5.2, and the Joint Tortfeasors Contribution Law, N.J.S.A. 2A:53A...

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