Mealey's (July 25, 2019, 10:57 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 22 withdrew its May holding that a franchisor violated wage-and-hour laws by misclassifying franchisees as independent contractors, granted the franchisor’s request for a panel rehearing and said it would offer a revised disposition and issue an order certifying to the California Supreme Court the question of whether a 2018 high court ruling applies retroactively (Gerardo Vazquez, et al. v. Jan-Pro Franchising International, Inc., No. 17-16096, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 21687)....