Following the dismissal of more than a half-dozen lawsuits in Georgia accusing a sperm bank of peddling semen from a donor with mental health disorders and other issues in recent years, the Georgia Supreme Court will decide whether the state’s long-standing prohibition on claims for “wrongful birth” forestalls such actions. 

On Monday, the court agreed to hear an appeal in one of several cases filed by the clients of Georgia-based Xytex Sperm Bank over claims that “Donor 9623,” who was touted as a well-educated man with an IQ of 160, actually had a medical history including a diagnosis of schizophrenia and had served time for burglary.