Mealey's ( August 25, 2021, 7:57 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 9, in a case concerning 7-Eleven franchisees who have claimed in a putative class complaint that they were misclassified as independent contractors, certified a question to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court concerning the application of the state’s independent contractor test to relationships between a franchisor and franchisees....