FDD Items 3 & 4 · 2025 filing
Ram Jack litigation history
What Ram Jack 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
- 1
- Item 3, as counted in the filing
- Largest disclosed settlement
- $65K
- As stated in Item 3
- Bankruptcy (Item 4)
- Disclosed
- Franchisor, parent, predecessor or officer
- Filing year
- 2025
- Disclosures cover the prior ten years
Extracted from the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 3: litigation
Ram Jack Systems Distribution, LLC v. Gibbs Company, Inc. and Randy Gibbs (Case No. CJ-2018-172, District Court for Pontotoc County, Oklahoma). Claims included failure to pay for materials and tools, franchise agreement violations for operating competing business, withholding customer lists, and diverting customers. Plaintiff sought $162,866.80 plus injunctive relief and attorney fees. Settled September 3, 2019 for $65,000 plus return of inventory and equipment with mutual releases.
Disclosed in the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document
Item 4: bankruptcy
Bankruptcy Code; (b) obtained a discharge of its debts under the bankruptcy code; or (c) was a principal officer of a company or a general partner in a partnership that either filed as a debtor (or had filed against it) a petition to start an action under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or that obtained a
Disclosure signals that moved the score
How this shows up in the verdict
- 1 old settled litigation matter (2019) - low weight
- No bankruptcy, no going-concern, audited
The verdict grade is FranchiseVerdict's editorial assessment across SBA loan performance, unit growth, revenue and disclosure signals. It is not investment advice.
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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?