Board of Regents of the University System v. Doe

How courts have described this case

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• holding that member institutions of the Board are not “separate or distinct” legal entities and thus “cannot sue or be sued”
• holding that Georgia Tech could not sue or be sued in its own capacity
• holding that Georgia Tech “cannot sue or be sued in its own capacity” because it is “not a separate or distinct legal entity” from the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
• “A contract may be formed . . . when the parties exchange mutually interdependent promises. [Cit.]”
• both holding that the power to sue and be sued is vested in the Board of Regents, not in individual member institutions
• both holding that the power to sue and be sued is vested in the Board of Regents, not in individual member institutions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).