City of Pascagoula v. Tomlinson

How courts have described this case

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• finding that 13 dismissal of a lawsuit for failure to comply with the waiting period was a disproportionate remedy
• “[T]he dismissal of a lawsuit based on a failure to comply with the waiting period is . . . contrary to the purposes of the Legislature in enacting the Tort Claims Act.”
• suit filed two weeks after notice of claim was not dismissed; prior interpretations of Tort Claims Act found appropriate remedy to early filing of lawsuit was request for stay by defendant, not dismissal

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