Legal Opinion
Budden v. Board of School Commissioners
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided August 20, 1998No. 49S05-9804-CV-220PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER
BOEHM, Justice.
The Indiana Tort Claims Act requires a person suing a “political subdivision” of the State in tort to give written notice describing the claim before filing suit. This interlocutory appeal deals with the scope of the notice required under the Act to preserve claims of a prospective class with unnamed members. The trial court concluded that it was bound by a recent Court of Appeals decision and ruled that this case could not proceed as a class action because the unnamed members were not identified in the notice and had not authorized the three putative…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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