Opinion No. (1979)

Dear Superintendent Fisher,

The Attorney General is in receipt of your request for an opinion wherein you ask, in effect, the following question:

"Does a local school board have the authority to enter into acompromise or settlement, in a lawsuit pending against it in DistrictCourt?"

It is a well settled principle that the law favors compromises and settlements. As for an independent school district having the power to settle a claim against it, 70 O.S. 5-105 (1971) relates that every school district shall be a body corporate . . . which "may sue and be sued".

The Colorado Supreme Court, in…