| In the wake of the Pennsylvania State University child sex-abuse scandal, questions loom over whether or not the school, as a state-supported higher learning institution, can face civil litigation.
The consensus among attorneys who have worked similar cases involving sexual abuse of minors seems to be that the university is not shielded from lawsuits under the state's Sovereign Immunity Act, which essentially says the commonwealth cannot be sued. Thomas Sheridan, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer who has handled child sex abuse cases in the past, told CNN News in a Nov. 13 report that the university appears to fall into one of nine exceptions laid out in Pennsylvania law that would pave the way for civil litigation. |
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