Pounds v. Florida

How courts have described this case

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• holding that 33 V.I.C. § 3409 “relieve[s] a claimant under legal disability of the requirement of filing a claim or notice of intention within ninety days,... and... allow[s] such a claimant to file his claim within two years after removal of the disability”
• analyzing “legal disability” for purposes of a VITCA claim under the definition provided at 5 V.I.C. § 36
• “the Virgin Islands Tort Claims Act, like the New York Court of Claims Act as it existed at the time the Virgin Islands act was adopted, makes it mandatory that a person seeking to file a belated tort claim demonstrate a ‘reasonable excuse’ for not having timely filed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).