Legal Opinion
Awuah v. Coverall North America, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 27, 2012No. 12-1301PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This appeal is the latest development in long-running litigation 1 between Coverall North America, Inc., a company which contracts to provide commercial janitorial cleaning services to building owners or operators in the United States, and its “franchisees,” who do the cleaning. Proceeding under federal diversity jurisdiction, the franchisees assert a variety of state-law claims against Coverall. The plaintiffs assert claims for breach of contract, misrepresentation, deceptive and unfair business practices, misclassification as independent contractors, and failure to pay…
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