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Subway Real Estate, soldier settle Dallas franchise suit
January 4, 2010
Subway Real Estate Corp. has settled its two-year legal battle with a former Army reservist in which the reservist was stripped of his Dallas restaurants after he failed to make rent payments ok during his deployment to Afghanistan in 2005, according to The Dallas Morning News. The terms of the settlement were confidential.
Lt. Col. Leon Batie Jr. filed a $6 million suit against Subway's real estate arm for violations of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act in June 2009. In October, a judge ruled that Subway Real Estate Corp. had violated Batie's rights under the act. The law states that no one may terminate an active-duty service member's installment contract, including leases, without a court order.
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