Carpet Remnant Warehouse, Inc. v. New Jersey Department of Labor

Only lawyers and judges could complicate something as simple as an “ABC test.” Did you ever go into a carpet store to buy carpet and to have it installed and get the impression that the store guaranteed only the carpet, not a proper installation? And that if the carpet were installed improperly or did not reach the walls or the seams did not match, that the carpet store had no further obligations because the installer was “free from control or direction” over his or her performance and was engaged in an “independently established trade * * * or business?” No one would think that.

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