Mealey's (July 24, 2018, 12:14 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge on July 20 denied 7-Eleven Inc.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that it misclassified its franchisee convenience store workers as independent contractors instead of employees but dismissed two of the franchisor’s market managers from the lawsuit, finding that the plaintiffs failed to allege individual liability against them (Dhananjay Patel, et al. v. 7-Eleven, Inc., et al., No. 17-11414, D. Mass., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 121705)....