Optimer International, Inc. v. RP Bellevue, LLC

Dwyer, A.C.J.

¶1 RP Bellevue, LLC, appeals from a superior court’s order denying its motion to vacate or modify the arbitration award entered in a dispute with its tenant, Optimer International, Inc. The superior court denied RP Bellevue’s motion because the parties’ lease contained a clause in which each party agreed to waive the right to seek judicial review of any such award. However, Washington’s uniform arbitration act,1 chapter 7.04ARCW, which by its terms applies retroactively to all arbitration agreements, prohibits parties to an arbitration agreement from waiving the right to seek…