GONZALEZ v. JERSEY CITY

A-19 September Term 2020 084381.

255 A.3d 1175 (2021)

247 N.J. 551

Estate of Hiram A. GONZALEZ, BY Iraideliz GONZALEZ, Administrator Ad Prosequendum, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. The CITY OF JERSEY CITY, the Jersey City Police Department, Police Officer Leon Tucker, Jr., and Police Officer Saad Hashmi, Defendants-Appellants, and Eman S. Ahmed and Elham M. Mansour, Defendants.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided August 4, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip S. Adelman , Assistant Corporation Counsel, argued the cause for appellants ( Peter J. Baker , Corporation Counsel, Jersey City Law Department, attorneys; Philip S. Adelman and Stevie D. Chambers , Assistant Corporation Counsel, on the briefs).

Lawrence D. Minasian argued the cause for respondent (Greenberg Minasian, attorneys; Lawrence D. Minasian and William S. Greenberg , West Orange, on the briefs).

Robert F. Renaud argued the cause for amici curiae New Jersey State League of Municipalities and the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys (Renaud DeAppolonio, attorneys; Robert F. Renaud , on the brief).

Kenneth G. Andres, Jr. , argued the cause for amicus curiae New Jersey Association for Justice (Andres & Berger, attorneys; Kenneth G. Andres, Jr. , of counsel and on the brief, and Tommie Ann Gibney , Haddonfield, on the brief).

Jonathan Testa submitted a brief on behalf of amicus curiae New Jersey Municipal Excess Liability Joint Insurance Fund (Dorsey & Semrau, attorneys; Fred C. Semrau, Boonton, of counsel, and Jonathan Testa , Morristown, on the brief).


In this appeal we are called upon to determine whether officers responding to a one-vehicle accident on a highway bridge may be entitled, under the particular facts and circumstances of this case, to any of the immunities from liability provided by the New Jersey Tort Claims Act (TCA), N.J.S.A...

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