September 27, 2023
7-Eleven says the Massachusetts public records law entitles it to copies of correspondence between counsel for a group of its franchisees and the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a proposed worker misclassification class action.
August 30, 2023
A First Circuit panel sent to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the question of what is meant by "performing any service" in a franchise arrangement, finding the question crucial to deciding an appeal from a proposed class of 7-Eleven franchise owners who argue they are employees.
July 05, 2023
A group of 7-Eleven franchise owners asked the First Circuit to upend a Massachusetts lower court's ruling in favor of the company in the franchise owners' case alleging they are employees of the chain, arguing they are employees because they generate revenue for the chain.
May 30, 2023
Five 7-Eleven franchisee owners are not the chain's employees because they actually paid the company for its services and ran multimillion-dollar businesses, 7-Eleven told the First Circuit, urging the appeals court to leave a Massachusetts district court's decision intact.
March 29, 2023
The Massachusetts attorney general is supporting a handful of 7-Eleven franchisee owners seeking to overturn a federal judge's finding that they are not company employees, saying in a brief to the First Circuit that the district court's ruling undermines the commonwealth's definition of what constitutes an employee.
March 22, 2023
A handful of 7-Eleven franchisee owners urged the First Circuit to overturn a Massachusetts federal court ruling that they are not employees because they don't provide services to the company, saying the decision is legally baseless.