Havasupai Tribe of the Havasupai Reservation v. Arizona Board of Regents

OPINION

JOHNSEN, Judge.

¶ 1 Plaintiffs in these consolidated cases1 brought claims against the Aizona Board of Regents (“ABOR”) and others arising out of the alleged misuse of blood samples taken from members of the Havasupai Tribe in the early 1990s. In each case, the superior court entered summary judgment against the plaintiffs because it concluded they failed to comply with A-izona’s notice-of-claim statute, Aizona Revised Statutes (“A.R.S.”) section 12-821.01 (2003). Asked to apply the statute’s requirement that a claimant provide “facts supporting” the stated settlement demand, we reverse…