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VAZQUEZ v. JAN-PRO FRANCHISING INTERNATIONAL, INC.

No. 17-16096.

939 F.3d 1050 (2019)

Gerardo VAZQUEZ, Gloria Roman, and Juan Aguilar, on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. JAN-PRO FRANCHISING INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 24, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shannon Liss-Riordan (argued), Lichten & Liss-Riordan P.C., Boston, Massachusetts, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jeffrey M. Rosin (argued), O'Hagan Meyer PLLC, Boston, Massachusetts; Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. , Theane D. Evangelis , and Samuel Eckman , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

Catherine K. Ruckelshaus and Najah A. Farley , National Employment Law Project, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae National Employment Law Project, Equal Rights Advocates, Dolores Street Community Services, Legal Aid at Work, and Worksafe, Inc.

Norman M. Leon , DLA Piper LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Jonathan Solish , Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Santa Monica, California; James F. Speyer , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Amicus Curiae The International Franchise Association.

Bradley A. Benbrook and Stephen M. Duvernay , Benbrook Law Group PC, Sacramento, California; Luke A. Wake , NFIB Small Business Legal Center, Sacramento, California; for Amicus Curiae National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center.

Adam G. Unikowsky , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C.; Steven P. Lehotsky , U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.

James F. Speyer , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae California Chamber of Commerce.

Paul Grossman and Paul W. Cane Jr. , Paul Hastings LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amicus Curiae California Employment Law Council.

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges, and Frederic Block, District Judge.

OPINION

We have certified to the California Supreme Court the question whether that Court's decision in Dynamex Operations West Inc. v. Superior Court, 4 Cal.5th 903, 232 Cal.Rptr.3d 1, 416 P.3d 1 (2018), applies retroactively. See Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Int'l, Inc., 930 F.3d 1107 (9th Cir. 2019). We here re-establish the...

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