“Batie sued under the Servicemembers act. The law bars anyone from terminating an active-duty service member's installment contract, including leases, without a court order.”
Unless you are a service member. Subway terminated his lease without a court order. I expect they will have to pay him big money.
I wonder if the law covers business leases as well as apartment leases.
Also, it's quite likely the lease was to a corporation and not Batie himself. There may actually be multiple corporations involved. It's common to have a corporation per store, in turn owned by the franchisee, which is its own corporation. This is done to contain liability issues that may arise at individual stores.