Offering some guidance on various principles of Tort Claims Act immunity, a state appellate panel has reinstated a lawsuit filed against Jersey City police officers over allegedly leaving a drunken motorist with a broken down car on a bridge, where he was eventually ran over and killed.

Appellate Division Judges Joseph Yannotti, Edward Hoffman and Heidi Currier ruled in a per curiam opinion that officers Leon Tucker and Saad Hashmi weren’t immune from liability under the New Jersey Tort Claims Act. In doing so, the panel reversed the lower court’s order of summary judgment in favor of the defendants.

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