Rector & Visitors of the University v. Carter

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the Commonwealth of Virginia was a necessary party to a Virginia Tort Claims Act claim
• noting that the University of Virginia was entitled to common law sovereign immunity from tort liability because the Virginia Tort Claims Act did not waive the sovereign immunity of state agencies
• finding the Virginia Tort Claims Act waives sovereign immunity for the Commonwealth but not its agencies
• Virginia Tort Claims Act contained no express waiver of immunity for agencies of Commonwealth
• “Under the plain language of the Act, the Commonwealth (and certain “transportation districts” not here relevant) are the only entities for which sovereign immunity is waived.”
• “Under the plain language of the Act, the Commonwealth (and certain ‘transportation districts’ not here relevant) are the only entities for which sovereign immunity is waived.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).