Alabama-based Troy University can’t escape a former recruiter’s worker’s sexual harassment suit in North Carolina after the US Supreme Court declined the school’s request to examine whether it had waived its sovereign immunity to lawsuits in the Tar Heel State.
The justices on Tuesday rejected the university’s petition to review a divided North Carolina Supreme Court ruling that a certificate of authority Troy University obtained to operate an office for commercial activities in Fayetteville, N.C., contained an agreement to sue and be sued, which waived its immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.
The decision, if it stands, would eliminate the sovereign ...
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