Christie v. BD. OF REGENTS UNIVERSITY REGENTS

Comes the intruder spoilsport as the legislative and judicial branches continue their gambol o’er the field of sovereign immunity. Here the recurrent problem — -what to do with another aspect of such immunity — cannot be buck-lateraled to the legislature. By the Constitution that august body has been rendered ineligible to receive, in today’s game, any kind of a pass from the judicial branch.

Plaintiff, at 7 years of age, sues for personal injury said to have been negligently inflicted while he was a patient — during early infancy — in the university hospital. The asserted negligence consists…