Muhammad v. New Jersey Transit

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding a company was \clearly\ an independent contractor when it was hired to remove asbestos, and the employer did not supervise or direct the project
• reviewing three bases for imposing vicarious liability on employer for torts of independent contractor
• defining an independent contractor as someone “who, in carrying on an independent business, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods without being subject to the control of the employer as to the means by which the result is to be accomplished”
• confirming NJ Transit's status as a distinct public entity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).