FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing
Escape Enterprises, Inc. litigation history
What Escape Enterprises, Inc. disclosed about lawsuits, arbitrations and bankruptcy in the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document. Item 3 lists the material legal actions a franchisor must report; Item 4 covers bankruptcy. This is the franchisor's own disclosure, not a court record, and not legal advice.
Items 3 (litigation) & 4 (bankruptcy) at a glance
What the filing discloses
- Cases disclosed
- 1
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest settlement, franchisor's own cases
- None stated
- Bankruptcy (Item 4)
- None
- Franchisor, parent, predecessor or officer
- Filing year
- 2025
- Disclosures cover the prior ten years
Extracted from the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 3: litigation
Suit to collect royalty payments: Escape Enterprises, Ltd. v. SESHMS Inc., et al., Case No. 22CV001626, Court of Common Pleas, Franklin County, Ohio (2022).
Item 3 (litigation) · 1 matter disclosed
Litigation cases
The franchisor
Status not stated in the filing (1)
Escape Enterprises, Ltd. v. SESHMS Inc., et al.
Brought against a franchisee · filed 2022 · Court of Common Pleas, Franklin County, Ohio · 22CV001626
“… 22CV001626 (Court of Common Pleas, Franklin County, Ohio; 2022) No other litigation is required to be disclosed in this Item.”Page 13 of the 2025 FDD, Item 3
Item 3 lists the litigation the franchisor must disclose; a matter against a parent, an affiliate or a named officer is not a matter against the franchisor, and pending claims are allegations, not findings.
Before you weigh a lawsuit
How to read Item 3
A franchisor must disclose pending actions and any material civil action involving the franchise relationship, plus convictions or civil judgments for fraud, unfair or deceptive practices, or franchise-law violations, going back ten years. A case the franchisor brought against a franchisee counts too. Item 3 does not include every dispute: settled claims below the materiality line and matters resolved in private arbitration can be absent.
Questions worth asking current and former franchisees, using the contact list in Item 20:
- Were you, or anyone you know in the system, party to a dispute with the franchisor?
- Was it resolved by settlement, arbitration or a court, and on what terms?
- Has the number of disputes gone up or down since you signed?