Appellate Court Reverses Lower Court and DAI’s Practice, Ruling Franchisees Have 90 Days to Seek to Vacate Franchise Termination Awards and that Lack of Notice or Opportunity to be Heard Justify Vacatur of Arbitration Award. In a significant victory…
Doctor’s Associates Inc. Has Now Confirmed What Many Franchisees Had Known: Subway Closed More US Stores Than It Opened.
It is now official, at the end of 2016, there were 359 less Subway restaurants in the United States than the year before. Gross sales in the United States were down by approximately $200 Million dollars. Many hundreds of…
U.S. District Court Rules That Dispute Over Enforcement of Arbitration Award is Not Subject to Mandatory Arbitration Clause Contained in Underlying Franchise Agreement
Doctor’s Associates’ Inc., the franchisor of Subway™ restaurants brought an action in the US District Court for the District of Connecticut to compel arbitration in response to a suit by one of its franchisees for breach of a Stipulated Arbitration…