In considering the appeal of a woman who allegedly sustained neurological and cognitive injuries while pulling her neighbor’s dog from a canal, the New Jersey Supreme Court declined to extend the state’s so-called rescue doctrine beyond situations involving the rescue of humans.

The justices said the rescue of property is not, “in whatever form, to be equally entitled to the unique value and protection bestowed on human life.”

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