Dritan Duka v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding the trustees “are one and the same party, namely the Commonwealth of Massachusetts”
• stating that while judicial abrogation of sovereign immunity is possible in the state courts, “it is preferable that the Legislature should have a reasonable opportunity to accomplish by statute this change in the law”
• while court has authority to abolish common-law doctrine of sovereign immunity, “it is preferable that the Legislature should have a reasonable opportunity to accomplish by statute this change in the law”
• the University of Massachusetts trustees are the same as the commonwealth

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).