Mealey's (May 9, 2019, 11:10 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on May 3 refused to dismiss or, alternatively, transfer a class action accusing a tool maker of wrongly misclassifying distributors as independent contractors rather than employees, holding that the invalidity of an arbitration provision in distributor agreements provided to franchisees made a forum-selection clause in the document unenforceable (John Fleming, et al. v. Matco Tools Corp., et al., No. 19-cv-00463-WHO, N.D. Calif.; 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 76351)....