City of Phoenix v. Fields

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a class representative must include in his notice of claim a “specific amount” for which his individual claim can be settled
• stating that a finding of waiver “is procedural, not substantive, and may be suspended in our discretion”
• stating that governmental entities may waive the notice of claim statute based on conduct during litigation of the claim
• noting that if defendants had “promptly sought judicial resolution of their [notice-of-claim] defense, the plaintiffs would have been spared considerable expense and the judicial system a significant expenditure of its resources”
• finding city could waive assertion that plaintiff failed to comply with the notice of claim statute by its subsequent conduct in litigation
• calling the Public Entities Act “a comprehensive statutory scheme governing actions against public entities and employees”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).