LK Operating, LLC v. Collection Group, LLC

¶1 In this case and its companion, LK Operating, LLC v. Collection Grp., LLC, 181 Wn.2d 117, 330 P.3d 190 (2014), we consider issues arising from a joint venture proposal regarding a debt collection business. The debt collection business operated according to the functional terms of the joint venture proposal from approximately winter 2005 through summer 2007, at which point the disagreements underlying the present litigation surfaced. This opinion addresses whether the proceedings below complied with due process requirements; whether, as a matter of law, the joint venture proposal was…