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.

In a published opinion, the appeals court weighed the expungement of records statute against the statutory provisions regulating transportation network companies over whether a conviction for aggravated assault bars employment as a ride-hailing driver.

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