Seattle Times follows up on Bellevue Towers story
Recall Seattle Times "$1.5M condo on 20K income" Story Full of Gaping Holes
Today a different reporter at the Times follows up on the lawsuit: Judge orders arbitration in Bellevue Towers suit
Today a different reporter at the Times follows up on the lawsuit: Judge orders arbitration in Bellevue Towers suit
I guess "we no speak English" doesn't fly in court. Go figure. Also...A judge has ordered binding arbitration in a lawsuit by six people who say the developers of the upscale Bellevue Towers condominiums illegally snatched tens of thousands of dollars of their earnest money after their loans fell through.
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King County Superior Court Judge John Erlick has ordered the lawsuit halted. He didn't rule on the merits of the case but agreed with Bellevue Towers' lawyers that the dispute must be handled in arbitration because a clause in the condo-sale agreement demands it.
Sounds like the attorney is taking a rather different approach than the "my clients were unwittingly duped" tact that was described in the February story.In a Seattle Times story about the lawsuit in February, Kasimov, who is from Uzbekistan, was portrayed as a first-time homebuyer who was deceived by the complexity of the sales contract.
However, Kasimov had actually bought a condo two years before he signed the Bellevue Towers contract, and he bought houses in Bellevue and Redmond around the same time that he agreed to buy into Bellevue Towers.
[Plaintiffs' attorney James] Robinson, though, said that's irrelevant to the lawsuit.
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