Imrie
Estate of Imrie v. Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District
Opinion
Opinion
Patel, J.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Re: Defendants’ Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings
Plaintiffs Estate of Marissa Renee Imrie and Renee Mulligan, Imrie’s mother, brought this action against the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District and related officials (collectively “District”), alleging that the District’s failure to erect a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge violates plaintiffs’ federal constitutional rights and state law. Now before the court is defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings on plaintiffs’ federal claims. Having considered the arguments of the parties, and for the reasons set forth below, the court rules as follows. BACKGROUND
On December 17, 2001, fourteen-year-old Marissa Renee Imrie, a resident of Santa Rosa, California, paid $150 to a cabdriver to take her to the Golden Gate Bridge (“Bridge”). Imrie’s body was found later that day in the San Francisco Bay, her death ruled by the Marin County Coroner as an apparent suicide from jumping off the Bridge.
More than 1200 persons are known to have leaped to their deaths since the Bridge opened in 1937, making it the number-one suicide spot in the country. The Bridge has a three-and-a-half foot…