The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that at least some of the claims a couple leveled against a sperm bank that provided semen from a donor later revealed to have mental issues and criminal background may proceed, but the justices punted the case back to the Court of Appeals to sort out just which of those claims should survive.

The convoluted case—one of several filed by dissatisfied clients of Georgia-based Xytex Sperm Bank, who say they were falsely led to believe the donor was a highly intelligent and talented man—turns on Georgia’s long-standing ban on “wrongful birth” claims, which the unanimous opinion reaffirmed.

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