Pollard v. Board of Regents of University System

Hunt, Justice.

In 1986, plaintiff, Atha Pollard, was injured when she fell on a street on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology. She sued the Board of Regents, alleging negligence in maintaining the street. The Board claimed sovereign immunity and the trial court granted its motion to dismiss. Pollard appeals and we affirm.

Pollard concedes that the sovereign immunity provision of the 1983 Constitution affords immunity to the Board of Regents, but argues that the present provision was ratified as an amendment to the 1976 Constitution and was invalidly substituted for the original…