AWUAH v. COVERALL NORTH AMERICA, INC.

No. 12-1301.

703 F.3d 36 (2012)

Pius AWUAH; Denisse Pineda; Jai Prem; Richard Barrientos; Anthony Graffeo; Manuel Da Silva; and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, Appellees, Aldivar Brandao; Nilton Dos Santos; Geraldo Correia; Phillip Beitz; Marian Lewis; Stanley Stewart; Benecira Cavalcante, Plaintiffs, v. COVERALL NORTH AMERICA, INC., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 27, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman M. Leon , with whom Michael D. Vhay , Matthew J. Iverson , and DLA Piper LLP were on brief, for appellant.

Hillary Schwab , with whom Shannon Liss-Riordan , Claret Vargas , and Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C. were on brief, for appellees.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Chief Judge.

This appeal is the latest development in long-running litigation1 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...

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