Legal Opinion
Van Orden v. Borough of Woodstown
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided December 11, 2015No. Civil No. 13-5002 (JBS/AMD)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SIMANDLE, Chief Judge
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff Kathryn M. Van Orden filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against various municipality, county, and state officials after her daughter, Celena J. Sylvestri, drowned in her car on a flooded road in Salem County, New Jersey, after officials opened the floodgates of the Veterans Memorial Lake Dam in anticipation of the arrival of Hurricane Irene without closing the affected road.
The state defendants asserted sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment and have already been dismissed from this case. [Docket Item 32.] In an earlier Opinion,…
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