Case ID: nj_167/html/0155-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

770 A.2d 253
    RAMAPO BRAE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC.; DIANE BENNETT; ZACHARY & ANNE ALLEGRETTI; ILEEN CHANNER; JOSEPH & LESLIE DE MEO; DOROTHY NATALE; PAUL & LUCINE BAUMGART; HERMAT & ROLA BARKHO; VOJTECH & JUDY CERNY; FERMIN & NANCY DIAZ; ALICE BOYD-WILLIAMS; RAJENDRA & SURYA R. PATEL; DAVID & 
      NANCY VIOLETTE; JAMES & DEBRA BURNETTE; HENRY & SHOW-LING HO; THOMAS & JANET HAMILL; ROBERT & RHONDA SMITH; PETER & MARYJANE DURANTE; HAROLD & TAMMY BRENDEL; SCOTT & LINDA GOODWIN; RAYMOND & LAURA MC DONALD; STEVEN & VERONICA MARINO; CARL & JANICE ARNOLD; SANDRA BOYD; VICTOR & KATHLEEN VELASQUEZ; DINESH & BAHRTI SANGHVI; GLORIA MELENDEZ; ENRIQUE & ALBA VITERY; GUILLERMO & MARIA ESCOBAR; JO ANN WARGO; JOHN & ROSE MARIE ADAMKOVICH; THOMAS & NANCY VETTER; CHARLES & DIANNE MC CREADY; STEVEN & SHARLENE SCHERER; KAMPI & TARA PRAGDAT; JIRINA MANDIC AND ALBERT & SARAH YIP, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS AND CROSS-RESPONDENTS, v. BERGEN COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY, PROPERLY IDENTIFIED AS HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BERGEN COUNTY, DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT AND CROSS-APPELLANT, AND NORTH AMERICAN HOUSING CORPORATION; T.R. ARNOLD & ASSOCIATES; RESIDENTIAL WARRANTY CORPORATION AND MERCHANTS AND BUSINESS MENS INSURANCE COMPANY, DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS, AND E.O. D’ALESSANDRO, INC., A/K/A E.O. D’ALESSANDRO GARDEN CENTER; ABC CORP.; XYZ CORP.; TARQUINI & ELKIN/SOBOLTA, ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS; ZZZ ARCHITECTS, INC.; JOHN DOES, AS FICTITIOUS NAMES FOR UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF THE BERGEN COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY AND TOWNSHIP OF MAHWAH, DEFENDANTS, AND UFHEIL CONSTRUCTION, CO., INC.; JOSEPH FERRANTE D/B/A J.F. CONSTRUCTION; G. & M ROOFING SERVICE, INC.; JASLO CORPORATION T/A GIORDANO PLUMBING AND HEATING, INC.; TEK ELECTRIC, INS.; WILLIAM L. WISSING, P.E., L.S.; WISSING ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES; COSTIC BALUT & ASSOCIATES; HOOVER TREATED WOOD PRODUCTS, INC.; ABC CORPORATION 1 THROUGH X; AND XYZ CORPORATION 1 THROUGH X (SAID NAME BEING FICTITIOUS AND PRESENTLY UNKNOWN AND UNDETERMINED), THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANTS, AND MERIDIAN CONSTRUCTION, CO., INC., THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.
    Argued January 3, 2001
    Decided April 30, 2001.
    
      
      John F. Darcy, argued the cause for appellants and cross-respondents (McElroy Deutsch & Mulvaney, attorneys. Mr. Darcy and Kevin P. Harkins, on the briefs).
    
      Terrence J. Corriston, argued the cause for respondent and cross-appellant {Breslin & Breslin, attorneys).
    
      Thomas J. Perry, argued the cause for respondents Residential Warranty Corporation and Merchants and Business Mens Insurance Company {Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, attorneys).
    
      Frank M. Coscia, argued the cause for respondents North American Housing Corporation and T.R. Arnold & Associates {Gallo Geffner Fenster, attorneys).
    
      John G. Tinker, Jr., argued the cause for respondent Meridian Construction Co., Inc. {Leary, Bride, Tinker & Moran, attorneys).
   PER CURIAM

The judgment is affirmed, substantially for the reasons expressed in Judge Wefing’s opinion of the Appellate Division, reported at 328 N.J.Super. 561, 746 A.2d 519 (App.Div.2000).

For affirmance — Chief Justice PORITZ and Justices STEIN, COLEMAN, LONG, VERNIERO, LaVECCHIA and , ZAZZALI — 7.

Opposed — none.