The New Jersey Supreme Court granted the State’s motion for leave to appeal and held that a municipality’s contracting for emergency medical services through a private, non-profit first-aid squad does not convert the EMTs into public servants because they are not exercising authority of a uniquely governmental nature or performing a function exclusive to government […]

In the case of State v. Brandon T. Morrison, decided on December 14, 2016, the New Jersey Supreme Court considered whether a volunteer emergency medical technician (EMT), working for a private, non-profit rescue squad that receives municipal funding to provide service in a township, is a “public servant” under the official-misconduct statute, N.J.S.A. 2C:30-2(a). Writing […]