'Worlds Collide': Appellate Division Weighs Expungement Statute Against TNC Provision in Negligent Hiring Claim Against Uber

"It is at this point we must observe that the expungement statute is naturally in a state of tension with the truth," an Appellate Division judge wrote. "An expungement is a legal fiction, designed so a previously convicted person may participate in society on a more even playing field—a laudable goal."

March 17, 2023 at 12:26 PM

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Civil Appeals

Colleen Murphy

New Jersey's Appellate Division weighed an interlocutory appeal in a claim over Uber's potential culpability for negligent hiring or employment of a driver who got into a physical altercation with a store employee that left the employee with a severed cervical spinal cord and paralyzed him from the neck down.