Robert Neff (Of Counsel-Madison, NJ) successfully defended a city housing authority and the city’s police department, which had a shared services agreement with the authority to provide police patrols at a public housing development. The case involved a 19-year-old who was playing football with friends when he was shot in the chest in a drive by-shooting at the subject premises. The decedent’s estate, represented by his mother, filed a wrongful death complaint against the firm’s clients alleging the authority failed to staff a guard booth at the development’s entrance, allowing the van with four assailants to drive onto the property and open fire. After extensive fact discovery, the plaintiff attempted to serve an expert liability report after the court-ordered deadline had expired. Bob filed a motion to bar the report, which was granted. The plaintiff’s application to the Appellate Division for interlocutory review of the Order was denied, and consequently Bob moved for Summary Judgment, arguing that the plaintiff could not prove the case without expert testimony, that the facts did not raise a triable issue on breach of duty or proximate cause, and that immunity provisions in the Tort Claims Act barred the claims. The court granted Bob’s motion for lack of expert support and breach and proximate cause grounds on the facts. The court also found that immunity barred the complaint and dismissed the entire case, with prejudice.