Legal Opinion
Medicenters of America, Inc. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided March 26, 1974No. Civ. A. 73-650-RPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
MERHIGE, District Judge.
Medicenters of America, Inc., brings this action against the Virginia Department of Health and the Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to enforce what the plaintiff alleges to be contractual payments owed to it by the defendants.
Jurisdiction is alleged on the basis of 28 U.S.C. § 1332.
The defendants, a State Agency and State officer, respectively, have moved to dismiss the complaint on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction by reason of the claimed sovereign immunity inherent in the State and preserved to it by the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution…
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