Breaking of the lease has always been bad business. So, if that is the basis of the judge’s decision, I agree with the logic. That would be far less worrying than if a judge had decided to make business policy decisions for a private business.
Another example of very poor if not outright misleading reporting. They bury the most salient part of the story in the last paragraph.
Imagine how different the reaction of the readers would have been if the headline had been more truthful, such as “Judge disallows Starbucks breaking of lease”.