FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing
Primrose Schools litigation history
What Primrose Schools 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 & 4 at a glance
What the filing discloses
- Cases disclosed
- 4
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest disclosed settlement
- $650K
- As stated in Item 3
- 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
Three cases disclosed: (1) Primula Management, LLC v. Primrose School Franchising Company LLC (pending, filed 3/3/2025, U.S. District Court Southern District of New York) - trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, tortious interference, unjust enrichment claims; Franchisor initially named but removed from Amended Complaint filed 4/11/2025; Predecessor has Motion to Dismiss pending as of 4/25/2025. (2) Multi-state settlement with Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. (affiliate) regarding no-poaching provisions in franchise agreements (settled 3/11/2019, 11 states). (3) Multi-state settlement with Dunkin' Brands, Inc. (affiliate) regarding no-poaching provisions in franchise agreements (settled 3/14/2019, 13 states/jurisdictions).
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?