disputes with his employer. The crux of our decision in Godfrey, 142 Wn.2d at 898, was that by knowingly and voluntarily agreeing to arbitration, a party implicitly waives his right to a jury trial by agreeing to an alternate forum, arbitration. See also Nat’l Bank of Wash. v. Equity Investors, 81 Wn.2d 886, 912, 506 P.2d 20 (1973) (“One cannot, in the absence of fraud, deceit or coercion be heard to repudiate his own signature voluntarily and knowingly fixed to an instrument whose contents he was in law bound to understand.”). In Malted Mousse, Inc. v. Steinmetz, we affirmed this conclusion noting that by agreeing to arbitration, parties “generally waive their right to a jury.” 150 Wn.2d 518, 526, 79 P.3d 1154 (2003). Accord Cooper v. MRM Inv. Co., 367 F.3d 493, 506 (6th Cir. 2004) (<HOLDING>); Burden v. Check Into Cash of Ky., LLC, 267
holding that delay created by defendant in mistakenly agreeing to a waiver of his speedy trial rights is excludable holding that where the record showed neither that the trial court explained to the defendant his right to a jury trial nor an effective waiver of the right structural error occurred holding that by agreeing to an arbitral forum an employee necessarily waives his right to a jury trial holding that failure to raise an issue in an opening brief waives that issue recognizing the right to waive a jury trial