Settlement Information
The lawsuit is known as Thomas Silver v. Rudeen Management Company, Inc., Spokane County Superior Court Case No. 17-2-03103-2, and is before a judge of the Spokane County Superior Court in Washington State. The lawsuit alleges that Defendant Rudeen Management Company, Inc. (the “Defendant”), failed to provide its tenants upon move out with a full and final deposit disposition statement and/or deposit refund due within legally required timelines under RCW 59.18.280. The Superior Court has determined that all tenants that moved out within the Class Period above, who did not receive a full and specific deposit statement and/or the entire amount of their deposit back within the applicable statutory deadlines, are the Class Members. The Court decided this lawsuit should be certified as a class action on behalf of a Class, or group of people, that could include you. The Court also entered an Order that the Defendant violated RCW 59.18.280 and is liable to the Class Members in the amount of two (2) times each Class Members’ respective security deposit, plus interest. This Notice summarizes your rights and options before a final determination. You have to decide whether to stay in the Class and be bound by any result or ask to be excluded and potentially keep your right to sue the Defendant about the same legal claims. No money has been provided by the Defendant to fund this determination and there is no guarantee the Defendant ever will.
Please read the notice carefully. Your legal rights will be affected, and you have a choice to make at this time.
Who Is a Class Member?
You are a Class Member if you are a person who paid a deposit at a Washington State residential rental property owned or managed by Rudeen Management Company, Inc., or where Rudeen Management Company, Inc. acted as a landlord for those properties, and you moved out from any of those rental properties any time between August 10, 2014, through May 19, 2023, (the “Class Period”) and you did not receive a full and specific deposit statement and/or your entire deposit refund within the applicable statutory deadlines.
Your Legal Rights and Options
Option and Deadline |
Your Legal Rights |
Do Nothingno deadline |
Stay in this lawsuit. Await the outcome. Give up certain rights.
The rest of this text is an example of the amount of text that will display in this box. There are usually about this many sentences. By doing nothing, you will be a Class Member and will keep the possibility of getting money or benefits that may come from the Court’s determinations in this matter. But, you give up any rights to sue the Defendant separately about the same legal claims in this lawsuit. |
ASK TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE LAWSUITby February 20, 2026 |
Get out of this lawsuit. Get no benefits from it. Potentially keep rights.
If you ask to be excluded from the lawsuit and money or benefits are later awarded, you won’t share in those. But, you may potentially keep any rights to sue the Defendant separately about the same legal claims in this lawsuit. |
Objectby February 20, 2026 |
Write to the Court about why you don’t like the proposed attorneys’ fees and/or service award. You can do this only if you don’t exclude yourself. |
GO TO THE HEARINGon April 3, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. PST |
You may attend the hearing at Court for the Entry of Final Judgment of Class Damages and a determination on any attorneys’ fees and service award, but you are not required to attend. |
Dates and Deadlines
Do Nothing
No Deadline
Exclusion Deadline
February 20, 2026
Objection Deadline
February 20, 2026
Final Judgment Hearing
April 3, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. PST