Deer Valley Unified School District No. 97 v. Houser

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• recognizing that the “statutory mandates ensure that government entities will be able to realistically consider a claim”
• holding that the plaintiffs claim letter satisfied the statute, however, also noting dismissal might be appropriate based on the plaintiffs failure to comply with the statute’s time limitations
• holding that a notice of claim was invalid because its “qualifying language [made] it impossible to ascertain the precise amount” for which the public school could have settled the claim
• holding that a notice of claim was invalid because its “qualifying language [made] it impossible to ascertain the precise amount” for which the public entity could have settled the claim
• explaining that claimant’s use of qualifying language “makes it impossible to ascertain the precise amount for which [Deer Valley] could have settled her claim”
• requiring that a claimant “include a particular and certain amount of money that, if agreed to by the government entity, will settle the claim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).