Alabama’s Troy University must face a North Carolina lawsuit alleging it wrongfully fired an employee there who was recruiting military personnel from North Carolina’s Fort Bragg for online enrollment.
The university waived its sovereign immunity to suit in North Carolina state courts by opening an office for commercial activity in Fayetteville, a divided state supreme court ruled. Troy’s obtaining a certificate of authority to operate in North Carolina likewise waived its sovereign immunity from being sued in the state, the court said.
The 5-2 ruling reverses a lower court, which had dismissed Sharell Farmer’s tort and public policy-based claims against ...
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