Reed v. Doctor's Associates, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE DONOVAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

The appellants, Ruth Reed, Dan Keating, Dennis DeSpain, Terry DeSpain, and Charles Mansfield Smith III, along with more than 50 other named plaintiffs-franchisees, brought an action on behalf of themselves and as representatives of a proposed class of Subway sandwich shop franchisees, against the defendants, Doctor’s Associates, Inc., Frederick DeLuca, and Peter H. Buck, alleging that they had breached the Subway franchise agreements and engaged in malicious prosecution and abuse of process and that the arbitration clause in the…