Stockton Ex Rel. Stockton v. Offenbach

How courts have described this case

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• holding that section 74.351 does not contain “good faith” or “due diligence” exception to 120-day expert report deadline
• explaining that Stockton’s expert report was due about two months before the trial court authorized service by publication and about six months before such service was completed
• stating that an appellate court reviews questions of law de novo
• “We presume that when enacting legislation, the Legislature intends to 10 comply with the state and federal constitutions, and we are obligated to avoid constitutional problems if possible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).