Buteas v. Raritan Lodge No. 61

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• discussing how an association or organization purporting to exist A-1613-24 14 and have standing pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2A:64-1 must also be subject to tort actions from its own members
• explaining a defendant who fails to plead an affirmative defense ordinarily waives it
• explaining an affirmative defense is \a matter of avoidance of liability for culpable conduct 11 A-0271-20 for which [a] defendant would have been answerable but for the particular facts of the transactional relationship between the parties\
• \[T]he imputed negligence doctrine barring suit by a member against the association itself is based on an obsolete legal fiction whose time has long since passed.\
• “[T]he imputed negligence doctrine barring suit by a member against the association itself is based on an obsolete legal fiction whose time has long since passed.”

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