Fedway Marketplace West, LLC v. State

¶1 Fedway Marketplace West LLC and Garland & Market Investors LLC, landlords of former state liquor store locations (Landlords), appeal the superior court’s entry of a CR 12(c) judgment on the pleadings and dismissal of Landlords’ complaints against the State of Washington for terminating its leases of Landlords’ properties the State had used for selling liquor. After Initiative 1183 (1-1183) privatized the sale of liquor in Washington, the State’s Liquor Control Board terminated its leases with the landlords of state-owned liquor store locations and auctioned the right to sell liquor at…